WD Touts 3D NAND That's 60% Faster and 50% Higher Capacity By Anton Shilov published 13 May 22 Western Digital readies BiCS6, BiCS+ 3D NAND memory for next-generation datacenter and client SSDs.
Western Digital Shares Roadmap: 26TB Today, 50TB Tomorrow By Anton Shilov published 11 May 22 Western Digital says ePMR 2 technology will enable 32TB+ HDDs, but HAMR is needed for 50TB hard drives.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Want to Upgrade a Mac Studio SSD? Not So Fast By Anton Shilov published 22 March 22 Apple's Mac Studio has modular SSDs, but it does not mean they are upgradeable. At least, not for now.
Japan's Semiconductor Firms Largely Shrug Off Magnitude 7.3 Earthquake By Mark Tyson published 17 March 22 Kioxia, Sony, Renesas, and Sumco were among those to temporarily suspend production for safety and integrity checks. Semiconductor market spot pricing remains stable.
Mushkin's New SSD Boasts Impressive 7415 MBps Reads By Anton Shilov published 16 March 22 Mushkin's Vortex Redline SSDs feature graphene heat spreader, unbeatable performance
Nvidia Unveils Big Accelerator Memory: Solid-State Storage for GPUs By Anton Shilov published 15 March 22 Nvidia teams up with IBM to attach solid-state storage to GPUs — not the first time this sort of idea has appeared.
Intel Teases Third-Gen Optane Memory, New Tech By Anton Shilov published 12 March 22 Intel's third-gen Optane Persistent Memory is heading for Sapphire Rapids.
