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Solidigm's Avi Shetty
Solidigm VP talks PCIe 6.0 SSDs, next-gen floating gate NAND, liquid cooled storage and more

By Anton Shilov Published

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The best SSD for the Steam Deck, Xbox ROG Ally, and Ally X in 2026

By Shane Downing, Jarred Walton last updated

Our tests show the best SSDs for games on the Steam Deck.

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Old SSDs and hard drives on a shelf with an M.2 SSD enclosure
Save hundreds during this storage pricing hellscape by turning an SSD or hard drive you aren’t using into a useful external drive for as little as $8

By Matt Safford Published

Good storage deals are sadly dead, but an affordable enclosure can bring an old drive back to useful life.

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Writing 1 petabyte of data on a SATA II SSD
16-year-old SATA II SSD survives 1 petabyte of writes — 25x more than the drive's endurance rating

By Zhiye Liu Published

As part of an experiment, an enthusiast has written one petabyte of data on a legacy Sandisk P4 SATA II SSD that was released 16 years ago.

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Retro pirate gets two-year suspended jail sentence for being stuck in the past, burning and selling remix CDs of famous artists

By Mark Tyson Published

A UK man has been sentenced after pleading guilty to the unauthorized mixing and selling of music CDs, and thus breaking copyright laws. It is 2026.

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Chinese makers of DRAM modules, SSDs have a serious advantage over American and Taiwanese suppliers, says SMI SVP

By Anton Shilov Published

CCP directives can be lifebuoy for Chinese producers of DRAM modules and solid-state drives as domestic memory makers may be obliged to support the module industry.

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SMI says Nvidia is driving its consumer PCIe 6.0 roadmap, not AMD and Intel

By Anton Shilov Published

Nvidia may be ahead of AMD and Intel with PCIe Gen6-supporting platform for client PCs due to its client agentic AI ambitions, and that roadmap has suppliers like Silicon Motion paying attention.

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SanDisk Optimus GX Pro 8100 8TB SSD
SanDisk Optimus GX Pro 8100 8TB SSD Review — the undisputed king of high-capacity PCIe 5.0 SSDs

By Shane Downing Published

The SanDisk Optimus GX Pro 8100 is a top-tier drive with excellent performance, exceptional random read latency, and good power efficiency. As you'd imagine, it just has a pricing issue.

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'The retail SSD market has almost disappeared,' says Silicon Motion exec

By Anton Shilov Published

Vice president of client storage solutions at Silicon Motion warns that the retail SSD market has almost disappeared as NAND makers prioritize shipments of memory to AI data centers.

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SMI's PCIe 6.0 SSD controller for consumer SSDs coming next year, but severe NAND shortages will get even worse in 2027 as AI data centers swallow supply

By Anton Shilov Published

Silicon Motion's Nelson Duann discusses NAND supply crisis in the consumer SSD market and the future of consumer storage.

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