Latest SSDs News
SSD prices skyrocket by 300% in Japan, bringing 8TB Samsung 9100 drive to an eye-watering $3,500
Samsung SSDs saw massive price hikes across multiple Japanese PC retailers, with prices going up to $3,500 for 8TB drives.
Crushing shortages have pushed long-term supply agreements for SSDs and HDDs to record five years
Demand for storage devices is so high that large customers are willing to sign up to five-year long-term supply agreements, according to Sandisk, Seagate, and Western Digital.
Pirate RPG game is secretly looting your SSD lifespan
Gamers have reported that Windrose is consuming abnormally high disk I/O while playing, with up to 30 MB/s of constant read/write activity to the drive across most areas of the game world.
New flat M.2 SSD adapter doesn't stick out from the motherboard, unlocking PCIe slots hidden under massive GPUs
No extra perpendicular space taken.
Xbox Series X|S storage expansion cards can be used on PC with inexpensive CFexpress adapters
A lifeline amidst these dire times?
Fake Samsung 990 Pro SSD pops up in Europe, has a blue PCB and doesn't even work
In Austria, a buyer has received two Samsung 990 Pro clones that don't function.
This platypus PCIe adapter converts half-height GPUs into full-height while adding two M.2 slots for SSDs
PCIemaxxing, as the kids would call it.
Vdura hikes its enterprise SSD pricing, now costs 22.6x more than hard drives — the price of a 30TB SSD has climbed 472%
Vdura has materially revised the enterprise SSD pricing figures in its Flash Volatility Index, telling customers in an April 8 update that the cost of a 30TB TLC enterprise drive climbed 472%.
