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Acer Predator GM7000 SSD Review: A Familiar Drive

By Shane Downing published 11 October 22

The Acer Predator GM7000 uses familiar hardware we've seen from a drive made by HP. It's a good drive, but not an exciting one.

How To Clone Your SSD or Hard Drive

By Les Pounder published 9 October 22

Migrating your OS to a faster drive is made easy with Clonezilla.

Acer Predator GM3500 SSD Review: Old Tech, Basic SSD

By Shane Downing last updated 9 October 22

The Acer Predator GM3500 is a safe PCIe 3.0 SSD for budget builds or cheap upgrades.

U.S. Adds More Hurdles for Chinese Firms Using American Chip Tools

By Anton Shilov published 7 October 22

U.S. DoC adds 31 Chinese organizations to Unverified List (UVL).

Samsung Details GDDR7 and 1,000-Layer V-NAND Plans

By Francisco Pires published 6 October 22

Increasing investments as others tighten their belts

Kioxia Slashes 3D NAND Production as SSD Sales Plummet

By Anton Shilov last updated 1 October 22

Kioxia to Reduce 3D NAND wafer production by 1/3 starting October.

HDD Clicker v0.2 Restores Aural Ambience of Pre-SSD Life

By Mark Tyson published 29 September 22

If you don’t enjoy the silence of a flash-only storage configuration, maker Matthias Werner provides instructions for how to build your own HDD Clicker, or you can grab a pre-built device for $25.

Kioxia XG8 SSD Review: A Satisfactory OEM SSD

By Shane Downing published 29 September 22

The Kioxia XG8 is an OEM SSD that's plenty fast, even if more recent consumer drives beat it in many areas.

Analysts Expect Client SSD Pricing to Drop 15-20% in Q4

By Mark Tyson published 27 September 22

Demand has slowed, inventories are building, and it is thought NAND Flash product sales could cross into loss territory so producers can move on.

Corsair MP600 Pro XT PCIe 4.0 SSD Expands to 8TB Capacity

By Anton Shilov published 21 September 22

Corsair adds an 8TB drive to its premium MP600 Pro XT PCIe 4.0 SSD product line.

Morgan Stanley Fined $35 Million for Not Encrypting HDDs, Servers

By Anton Shilov published 21 September 22

Morgan Stanley to pay $35 million for not protecting personal identifying information.

Floppy Disk Kingpin Says Business Has About Four Years Before Hitting Eject Button

By Mark Tyson published 20 September 22

The last new media was produced a decade ago, but some demand remains.

New Backblaze Data Confirms SSDs Are More Reliable Than Hard Drives

By Aaron Klotz last updated 13 September 22

Backup company Backblaze has updated its SSD lifespan data for Q2 of 2022, with some really intriguing results. The new Q2 data confirms that SSD life expectancy is much greater than hard drives.

US Lawmakers Concerned About Apple's Decision to Use YMTC's 3D NAND

By Anton Shilov last updated 12 September 22

Apple confirms it's evaluating YMTC's 3D NAND memory for iPhones set to be sold to China.

Seagate Partners With DNA Tech Startup for 1000x Data Densities

By Mark Tyson published 8 September 22

Seagate's prototype machine is the size of a family kitchen, but using ‘lab on a chip’ technology it is hoped to shrink the device size down to seven liters.