MaxLinear Acquires SSD Developer Silicon Motion for $3.8 Billion By Anton Shilov published 5 May 22 MaxLinear boosts its product portfolio with acquisition of SMI.
Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus 8TB SSD Review: Big Capacity Meets TLC Flash By Shane Downing last updated 6 May 22 We put Sabrent's capacious 8TB Rocket 4 Plus through our battery of tests to see how it stacks up to the competition.
Seagate Reveals Star Wars-Branded FireCuda External HDDs By Anton Shilov published 4 May 22 Seagate's special edition Star Wars HDDs have Boba Fett, Grogu, and The Mandalorian outside, and 2TB of SMR storage inside.
Mushkin Delta 1TB SSD Review: Mediocrity Defined By Shane Downing last updated 4 May 22 Mushkin's 1TB Delta SSD leverages QLC flash, exchanging endurance and performance for more capacity and a lower price point.
Verbatim Launches Write-Once External SSD With 10-Year Warranty By Mark Tyson published 2 May 22 Storage device is designed to solve data retention issues of accidental file deletion or overwriting, and SSD wear. Special Windows software needs to be installed to write data but not for reading.
Solidigm Unveils D7 Series Data Center SSDs: Up to 15.36TB, 7100MB/s By Anton Shilov published 26 April 22 Solidigm, the former Intel SSD division, launched its new enterprise-grade D7-P5520 and D7-P5620 SSDs. The models provide more capacity and performance than the previous generation drives.
Breakthrough Allows for Mass Production of 25 Exabyte 2-Inch Diamond Wafers By Mark Tyson published 26 April 22 The 2-inch Kenzan Diamond wafers are expected to be commercialized in 2023, with 4-inch diamond wafers already in development.
Inland Premium 1TB SSD Review: Standard Fare with a Great Warranty By Shane Downing last updated 10 May 22 Your basic mainstream NVMe SSD
Tape Storage Shipments Increase 40% in 2021 By Francisco Pires published 21 April 22 Developments in tape storage technology and increasing attention to good backup philosophies explain the market's explosion.
HDD Areal Density Growth Slows as Capacity Increases By Anton Shilov published 19 April 22 Hard drives need energy-assisted magnetic recording to keep gaining areal density and capacity.
Smart Modular Brings Optane Memory to AMD EPYC Servers By Anton Shilov published 15 April 22 Smart's new add-in-card brings Intel's Optane Persistent Memory to AMD and Arm servers.
Sabrent Thunderbolt 3 Docking Station Review: Lots of Storage, Fast By Shane Downing published 15 April 22 We put the Sabrent Thunderbolt 3 docking station through its paces.
Silicon Power XPower XS70 SSD Review: Fast, Attractive, and Affordable By Shane Downing last updated 21 June 22 We put the blistering-fast Silicon Power XPower XS70 SSD through its paces in our test regimen.
Team Group T-Force Cardea A440 Pro and Special Series SSD Review: Fast But Overly Segmented By Shane Downing published 7 April 22 We put Team Group's new T-Force Cardea A440 Pro and Special Series SSDs though our rigorous SSD testing regimen.
SilverStone SSD Cover and Heatsink Makes Naked M.2 Drives PS5 Compatible By Mark Tyson published 5 April 22 The new SilverStone TP06 is a simple and practical solution, opening up a multitude of PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe M.2 SSD choices to PlayStation 5 users.
Inland Gaming Performance Plus 2TB SSD Review: Top-of-the-Line Gaming at Retail By Shane Downing published 5 April 22 Offers a high-end experience for PC or PS5, all at your local tech shop.
MSI Enters PS5 SSD Fray With Spatium M480 Play By Mark Tyson published 31 March 22 This is a version of the Spatium M480 design with a heatsink optimized for the confines of the PS5 chassis.
NAND Flash Prices Hikes Expected to Hit in Coming Quarter By Mark Tyson published 30 March 22 But consumer SSD and eMMC won't be as badly affected as Enterprise products.
Samsung and Western Digital Team Up for ZNS SSDs By Anton Shilov published 30 March 22 Samsung and Western Digital to standardize and develop crucial technologies for ZNS SSDs.
New Platform Lets GPUs and FPGAs Use Intel Optane Memory Modules By Anton Shilov published 24 March 22 GPUs, FPGAs, and special-purpose accelerators can now use large memory pools consisting of system memory and Optane Persistent Memory modules.