Seagate to Launch Mass Market 20TB HDDs in the Coming Months By Anton Shilov Seagate readies a lineup of 20TB HDDs with PMR and SMR.
Windows 10 Will Support Game-Boosting DirectStorage Tech After All By Aaron Klotz Microsoft has apparently changed its mind about supporting just Windows 11 with DirectStorage.
Qnap Launches NAS With Chinese x86 CPU: Zhaoxin-Based Model Available Worldwide By Anton Shilov Qnap's TVS-675 NAS packs the KaiXian KX-U6580 SoC and can house six HDDs and four SSDs.
Silverstone's Raven SSD Enclosure: NVMe or SATA, Your Choice By Myles Goldman The new Silverstone Raven RVS03 M.2 enclosure supports both NVME and SATA M.2 SSDS with transfer speeds up to 10Gbps.
Thailand Lockdowns Could Worsen HDD Shortage By Anton Shilov Lockdowns in Thailand can impact HDD production, report says.
TeamGroup Crams 8TB of Flash Into an M.2 SSD By Anton Shilov 3D QLC-based TeamGroup's MP34Q SSDs combine high capacity with moderate performance.
Patriot Admits to Swapping Parts on VPN100 SSD, Performance Unaffected By Zhiye Liu Patriot explains the reasons behind the component swap in the brand's Viper VPN100 M.2 PCIe SSD.
Sabrent Rocket NVMe 4.0 M.2 SSD Review: A High-Performance Value (Update) By Sean Webster Update Sabrent’s Rocket NVMe 4.0 offers unparalleled speed and endurance for the price.
Team Group T-Create Expert SSD Review: Ultimate Endurance for Chia Crypto Plotting By Sean Webster Team Group T-Create Expert is an expensive and enduring NVMe SSD for content creators and Chia farmers looking for lasting performance.
New WD SN850 SSD Firmware Restores AMD X570 Performance By Zhiye Liu Western Digital has released new firmware for the WD Black SN850 to recover the lost performance when connected to the AMD X570 chipset.
Icy Dock Packs 24 SSDs Into Three Drive Bays By Aleksandar Kostovic Icy Dock presents a 24 drive solution ideal for workstation PCs, gaming rigs, home servers, and data centers that require high IOPS, high capacity, and low latency storage access.
Even 'Free' Chia Farming Wouldn't Be Profitable at Scale, Cloud Storage Provider Finds By Nathaniel Mott Backblaze's calculations indicate that farming Chia at scale wouldn't be profitable even with essentially no operating costs.
This SSD Computes and Plots Chia for You By Francisco Pires NGD System's Computational Storage Drives are available in capacities up to 32TB and promise "set-it-and-forget-it" Chia plotting and farming.
Samsung Teases PCIe 5.0 SSDs: Coming in Q2 2022 By Anton Shilov Samsung readies PM1743 PCIe 5.0 SSD for enterprises.
Storage Scaler Crams 16 SSDs Into One Board By Ian Evenden A Kickstarter campaign hopes to produce a PCIe board with 16 SATA M.2 drives
Intel Optane SSD DC P5800X Review: The Fastest SSD Ever Made By Sean Webster Powered by a new generation of Optane and a faster SSD controller, Intel’s Optane SSD DC P5800X is a powerhouse PCIe 4.0 SSD that outperforms every drive on the market.
Intel Reveals Optane SSD P1600X: Entry-Level Boot & Caching SSDs By Anton Shilov Intel unveils successors for Optane SSD 800p-series caching drives
Micron: Taiwan Drought Is Over, but More Problems Incoming By Anton Shilov Micron: Taiwan drought is behind, but coronavirus outbreak poses risks.
Chia Mining Craze Easing, But HDD Pricing Still Rising By Anton Shilov The Chia cryptomining craze has waned, but high-capacity HDDs are still scarce and prices are still high.
Gigabyte Aorus Xtreme SSD: Up to 32TB and 28GB/s By Anton Shilov Gigabyte's client Aorus Xtreme SSD can beat enterprise-grade drives.
