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Inside the future of 3D NAND: The roadmap to 500 layers

By Anton Shilov Published

Premium The 3D NAND industry is rapidly advancing toward 500-layer stacks and 4800 MT/s interfaces by 2027, enabling denser, faster, and more efficient storage.

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Crypto wallet Chrome extension is eating SSD storage at an alarming rate

By Nathaniel Mott Published

A bug in the cryptocurrency tracking browser extension has been causing it to write heaps of data to users' SSDs.

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Team Group P250Q-M80 SSDs
This new SSD will literally self destruct if you push the big red button it comes with — Team Group posts video of data destruction in action

By Mark Tyson Published

Team Group's new M.2 2280 SSD comes with a big red button. Hold it one second too long, and it destroys your NAND instead of just erasing the data.

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The WD Black SN850X SSD with heatsink on a wooden table
The Best SSD for the PS5 gets a massive price cut

By Kunal Khullar Last updated

Compatible with both desktops, laptops, and PlayStation 5.

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Samsung 9100 Pro
Just in time for Prime Day, Steam's hardware survey reveals PC gamers have less free storage than ever

By Aaron Klotz Published

Now's the perfect time to upgrade your storage!

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Kioxia LC9 123TB SSD
Kioxia works with Nvidia to prep XL-Flash SSD that's 3x faster than any SSD available

By Anton Shilov Published

Kioxia is developing a 10M IOPS XL-Flash SSD with peer-to-peer GPU connectivity to eliminate bottlenecks and deliver low-latency, small-block access optimized for AI training and inference workloads.

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HighPoint Rocket 7604A RAID add-in-card
HighPoint's Gen5 M.2 NVMe PCIe card is here — promises 50 GB/s+ speeds for less than $1,000

By Mark Tyson Published

Storage expert HighPoint has revealed details and pricing for its new Rocket 7604A RAID add-in-card. Its $999 AIC fits up to four M.2 SSDs and is claimed to deliver real-world 50 GB/s+ performance.

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Close up of a SSD pin
A new SSD form factor can house a staggering 1,000,000 GB of storage – E2 drives could store 11,000 4K movies with 80W power draw

By Stephen Warwick Published

E2 is a new flash form factor

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Kioxia demos optical SSD
Kioxia demos optical SSD, boasts of high performance and 30m+ cabling

By Mark Tyson Published

Kioxia demos optical SSD with a system packing Kyocera's Optinity PCIe Gen5 card.

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Phison's 113.6 GB/s Apex RAID demo at Computex
Phison's Apex RAID demo showed us blistering 113 GB/s speeds in Computex demo

By Mark Tyson Published

A trio of Apex Storage X16 Gen5 add-in cards were loaded with 32 Phison E28 Gen5 M.2 SSDs to achieve read speeds of 113.6 GB/s on Windows.

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