Storage

Seagate has partnered with EK to create new special edition Star Wars themed FireCuda NVMe SSDs. Featuring Lightsaber faceplates honoring Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Darth Vader.

Kioxia researchers have successfully built a new NAND flash technology with the potential of having nearly twice the capacity of QLC NAND flash, while being significantly cheaper to produce.

BestBuy lists Western Digital's Xbox Series X|S external storage expansion cards, then removes listing.

Kioxia's and Western Digital's 218-layer 3D NAND device boasts 1Tb capacity, 3.2 GT/s interface speed.

Samsung expects physical, logical scaling and packaging innovations to enable Petabyte-size SSDs.

Some news outlets in Ecuador have received booby-trapped USB drives designed to explode when inserted into a device. Only one of the five known devices detonated.

A new report from Secure Data Recovery suggests that a potentially bad hard drive will fail in just under three years. This is most likely to occur with Hitachi and Seagate drives.

SK Hynix discloses details about its next-gen 300-layer 3D TLC NAND.

Pioneer's BDR-WX01DM optical disc drive and IPS-BD11J03P BD-R are compliant with the Japanese JIS X6257 standard, promise to last for a century.

Sabrent is working on a new SSD that will outperform all of the best SSDs on the market today, with a targeted transfer rate of 14,000 MB/s on the final product.

Backblaze published it's data for SSD reliability and temperatures for 2022, with less than a 1% annualized failure rate among the 2,906 drives.

New PS5 SSD cooler features an external heatsink and heatpipe to significantly reduce SSD temperatures.

Pure Storage expects its solid-state drives to increase capacity by six times in a few years.

The first SSDs with support for PCIe 5.0 are now available, with high prices on these early models.

The Gigabyte Aorus Gen5 10000 2TB SSD carries a $339.99 price tag at Newgg.