The Samsung 990 is the QLC variant of the manufacturer’s 990 EVO Plus. Despite having newer flash, it largely performs like last-gen, with mediocre power efficiency.
A stylish new product encourages the repurposing of old IDE optical drives as standalone audio players.
The TeamGroup G70 Pro is a high-end drive without a high-end price. Good performance, but poor power efficiency keeps it in check.
u/Hartkralle says that eBay refunds them when they report these fake drives, so getting scammers banned from the platform is worth their effort. While fake sellers would likely just create a new account on eBay in an hour or so, they say that it’s still another hour before an unsuspecting victim buys these fraudulent items.
Kioxia, Sandisk begin to sample BiCS10 3D NAND: 332 active layers and over 29 Gb/mm2 areal capacity.
DIYer shows how they made a handsome magnetic core memory USB drive using home CNC and 3D printing equipment. However, it isn’t a homebrew answer to the AI-induced memory crisis with only 64 bits of data capacity
Lenovo has seemingly begun using YMTC SSDs in some of its laptop models, allowing the Chinese storage chip company to gain a foothold in the U.S. This is despite its inclusion on the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Entity List and its branding by the Pentagon as a Chinese military company.
GitHub has announced that it will be giving developers a way to obtain their public repo on a CD-ROM. Context is provided by Sony’s recent decision to abandon game discs.
The Samsung 9100 Pro SSD is still sporting its Prime Day price. Grab one at this low price while you can.
In an interview with Tom’s Hardware Premium, Solidigm’s Avi Shetty discusses the future of high-capacity SSDs, Floating-Gate NAND, PLC memory, PCIe 6.0 storage, liquid-cooled SSDs, Nvidia’s Storage Next vision, and why the company believes AI will drive demand for even denser NAND flash-based storage technologies.