SSDs

2PB SSD storage in your computer? Why not — storage firm debuts tech that can support up to 32 drives, perfect if you want to use 61.44TB Solidigm SSDs or even bigger PCIe 5.0 ones in the future

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HighPoint has unveiled the industry’s first 8-Channel PCIe Gen5 x16 NVMe Switch and NVMe RAID product lines.  Powered by Broadcom’s PEX89048 IC, these are designed to cater to high-demand, data-intensive applications and integrate Broadcom’s Gen5 PCIe switching technology to utilize x16 lanes of Gen5 host bandwidth, direct from the CPU, across Intel and AMD platforms. … Read more

‘A game of chicken’: Samsung set to launch new storage chip that could make 100TB SSDs mainstream — 430-layer NAND will leapfrog competition as race for NAND supremacy heats up

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NAND-based storage devices are a fiercely contested sector, one in which Samsung has held the lead since 2002, but its rivals are gaining ground. The South Korean electronics giant has announced plans to commence mass production of its newest 290-layer ninth-generation vertical (V9) NAND chips, aimed at AI and cloud devices as well as large-scale … Read more

The best SSDs for PS5 in 2024

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When the PlayStation 5 originally came out, players were not able to expand the console’s storage — until a software update finally unlocked that feature. While some were served well by the device’s built-in 667GB of space for storing games, others (like my son) were forced to perform a near-daily juggling act that involved frequently … Read more

Best external SSDs for Mac or iPad in 2024

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Adding high-speed plug-in storage capacity to your computer is so easy it’s something every Mac user should consider. Here are some of the best consumer-oriented external SSDs that are designed for portability. Today is World Backup Day, which seems a good opportunity to explore external storage options. Especially as there are deals on some of … Read more

256TB SSDs could land before 2026 with a surprisingly low price — but will most likely use a controversial and popular trick borrowed from tape technology

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ScaleFlux has announced its latest SSD controller in what could be a significant step up for the company. The SFX 5016, the successor to the SFX 3016, incorporates several design advancements, including an upgrade from PCIe 4.0 to PCIe 5.0, doubling the host interface speed and bandwidth. The new controller has been designed to support … Read more

Newly discovered Microsoft Z1000 SSD baffles experts — no, world’s most valuable company won’t start selling SSDs anytime soon but it may well be tinkering with data center storage as it did with CPU

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A newly-discovered, Microsoft-branded SSD suggests the tech giant may be – or has been at least – exploring new ways to optimize its data center storage. The leaked images of a Microsoft Z1000 SSD show a 1TB NVMe M.2 drive, apparently boasting sequential read speeds of up to 2,400MB/s and write speeds of 1,800MB/s. The … Read more

KIOXIA SSDs achieve PCIe 5.0 and NVMe 2.0 compliance

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  KIOXIA’s CM7 and CD8P series SSDs have successfully passed the compliance certification for PCIe 5.0 and NVMe 2.0 specifications. This achievement signifies a major leap in the data storage industry, as these new interface specifications offer significantly increased data transfer speeds and bandwidth compared to their predecessors. The CM7 and CD8P series NVMe SSDs … Read more