Storage

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.

This $500 Superstar Crystal SATA cable features a 25mm woven metal sleeve, a secret filler formula, and claims to offer the “best computer Hi-Fi” quality.

Digital hoarders and 8K content creators, rejoice!

YMTC is laying off staff as it faces challenging market conditions and sanctions from the US.

The new Silicon Motion roadmap details the company's upcoming mainstream SM2504XT PCIe 5.0 SSD controller.

Framework is stocking M.2 2230 SSDs so that users can upgrade their Steam Decks.

The 2TB version offers up to 10,000MB/s reads and 9,500MB/s writes, but you should check motherboard compatibility carefully if you wish to use the optional XTREME heatsink.