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50% cheaper SSDs: Samsung starts production of 9th generation V9 QLC NAND

Samsung has commenced mass production of its 9th generation V9 QLC flash memory. This signifies faster, cheaper, and more efficient SSDs. The company reports that the new V9 QLC leverages the Can Hole Etching technology to achieve the highest number ...

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Kioxia announces SSD data sharing at the speed of light - optical connectivity will allow them to be placed away from servers

Kioxia, a leading SSD manufacturer, has announced new solid-state drives featuring optical interfaces for next-generation eco-friendly data centers. The optical technology replaces traditional electrical signals and copper wiring with laser and optic...

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Western Digital has released an 8TB gaming SSD at an attractive price point

Pre-orders for the WD Black SN850X M.2 NVMe Gen 4 8TB variant have already started. The drive with model number WDS800T2X0E without a heatsink (which is needed for PlayStation 5) can be ordered for $849, while the WDS800T2XHE variant with it costs $5...

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Samsung unveiled its first 61.44TB SSD - 122.88TB drives are already possible

Samsung has released its first SSD with a capacity of 61.44 TB. This high-capacity solid-state drive is intended for corporate use, not for regular consumers. Samsung says that thanks to its new controller, SSDs of 122.88 TB can be manufactured. Prev...

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It's Not a Graphics Card: MSI Shows M.2 Xpander-Aero Slide Expander for Two Hot Swap PCIe 5.0 SSDs

MSI M.2 Xpander-Aero Slider looks like a graphics card, but it's definitely not a graphics card. The expansion for M.2 PCIe 5.0 SSD even uses a cooler like the entry-level MSI Aero graphics card. The device can accommodate two solid-state drives in t...

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Gigabyte introduced the Aorus Gen5 14000 SSD for M.2 PCIe 5.0 - up to 14,500 MB/s, 3D-TLC NAND, integrated DDR4 cache

Gigabyte has released one of the fastest SSDs, the Aorus Gen5 14000, with 3D-TLC NAND flash memory. According to the manufacturer, the Aorus Gen5 14000 solid-state drive has achieved a 99% performance increase compared to PCIe 4.0 SSDs. The drive is...

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Apple iPod Classic with SSD, USB-C and Bluetooth in 2024 - the hardest part was opening the case

Brady Snyder from XDA enjoys using the Apple iPod Classic music player in 2024, but is hindered by issues with a device that is over 20 years old. Therefore, he added an SSD, USB-C port, and Bluetooth to the 2008 iPod Classic. One of the best ways to...

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SK hynix announces 300TB SSD and other technologies for data centers and AI

SK hynix announced at a press conference in Seoul that they are creating a massive 300TB SSD. The solid-state drive was unveiled as part of a wide portfolio of devices and technologies for data centers and AI. The company believes that the total volu...

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An enthusiast turned a Crucial QLC 512GB SSD into a SLC 120GB SSD with increased capacity and speed

Technical enthusiast Gabriel Ferraz converted his Crucial BX500 512GB SSD from QLC (4 bits per cell) to SLC (one bit per cell). As a result, the capacity of the drive decreased to 120GB, while the performance and durability of the SSD increased. The ...

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DRAM and NAND in one chip - researchers have created phase change memory that doesn't consume much power

Researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in South Korea have developed a new type of phase-change memory without the drawbacks of previous iterations of this technology. Phase-change memory, abbreviated as PCM, ...

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Samsung launched production of next-generation V-NAND memory: +33% performance, -10% power consumption

Samsung has announced the start of mass production of the 9th generation V-NAND flash memory, which offers a 33% increase compared to the current one. This month, TCL V-NAND production with a capacity of 1 Tb will start, QLC will be available in the ...

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After the Taiwan earthquake, memory manufacturers stopped publishing contract prices - will SSDs and DRAMs get even more expensive?

In recent times, there has been a disheartening trend of rising prices in the DRAM and NAND memory markets, which is already directly affecting the prices of end devices (SSD and RAM for mobile gadgets and computers). It is quite likely that this tre...

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M2 MacBook Pro's SSD was so full that it wouldn't let me delete data - only a full wipe would do the trick

An expert on Apple Mac, journalist Glenn Fleishman, wrote about an incomprehensible problem that one of his children encountered after trying to download a game from the Steam service on a MacBook Pro with an M2 chip and an almost full SSD. The drive...

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