Western Digital is one of the biggest names in storage, and today the company announced it has developed its 5th generation 3D NAND flash memory technology called BiCS5. It is latterly denser than the previous generation of 3D NAND, and also offers more storage layers—112 of them, to be precise.

These are important traits because they ensure

Source: Hot Hardware – Western Digital Announces BiCS5 112-Layer 3D NAND To Fuel Next-Gen SSDs