Phison Says SSD Hikes Coming Due to Chia, Supply Issues By Anton Shilov SSD pricing may increase by 10% starting in Q3 2021.
Big HDDs Set New Sales Record: 288 Exabytes in Q1 By Anton Shilov As consumer PCs move to SSDs, enterprise HDD shipments set records.
Best External Drives: Portable SSDs and Hard Drives of 2021 By Matt Safford, Sean Webster These external hard drives and SSDs offer the best balance of performance, features and price.
Best SSDs 2021: From Budget SATA to Blazing-Fast NVMe By Sean Webster Based on our extensive lab tests, we recommend the best SSDs for every need and budget.
British Regulators May Slowdown SK Hynix Acquisition of Intel's NAND Business By Anton Shilov The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority is probing the SK Hynix Intel deal.
Chia Cryptomining Causes 500% Increase In Adata High-Capacity SSD Sales By Zhiye Liu New DigiTimes report reveal that Adata has received big SSD orders since the start of April.
Hard Drive Prices Skyrocket In Asia Due to New Chia Cryptocoin, Scalpers Capitalize By Zhiye Liu New reports from Seagate, China, and Japan reveal price hikes in hard drives over the last couple of weeks.
Hard Drive and SSD Shortages Could Be Imminent If New Cryptocurrency Blooms By Zhiye Liu Cryptocurrency miners are snatching up hard drives and SSDs in China in wake of the new Chia cryptocurrency.
Report: Samsung Mulls Outsourcing eMMC, Embedded Flash Storage Controllers By Anton Shilov Samsung is reportedly considering outsourcing production of its memory controllers in favor of high-margin orders.
Intel Axes Optane SSD DC P4800X SSDs with Memory Drive Technology By Anton Shilov Intel discontinues SSDs with Memory Drive Technology software.
MSI Goes SSDs: Three Series of Spatinum SSDs Incoming By Anton Shilov MSI quietly starts to ship Spatinum SSDs to PC makers.
Seagate Has Shipped 3 Zettabytes of HDDs By Anton Shilov Seagate has shipped three zetabytes of hard drive storage in more than 41 years.
Micron and Western Digital Each Exploring Ways to Buy Kioxia By Anton Shilov Kioxia might be acquired by Micron or Western Digital.
Corsair MP600 Pro M.2 NVMe SSD Review: Faster Speed, Less Endurance By Sean Webster Corsair’s MP600 Pro is a fast and secure M.2 NVMe SSD that keeps cool with innovative cooling solutions.
SK Hynix Envisions 600-Layer 3D NAND & EUV-Based DRAM By Anton Shilov SK Hynix is looking at 600-layer 3D NAND, EUV-based DDR5 SDRAM, converged computing-in-memory devices.
Seagate: 100TB HDDs Due in 2030, Multi-Actuator Drives to Become Common By Anton Shilov Seagate outlines its technology roadmap: HAMR, Bit Patterned Media, Multiple Actuators.
Intel's 670p SSD Gets A Big Price Drop By Aaron Klotz Newegg has dropped pricing for Intel's 670p SSD by a significant amount.
The Samsung 980 SSD Spotted: A DRAM-Less PCIe 3.0 x4 SSD By Anton Shilov Samsung's 980 SSDs are almost here, but they are slower than Samsung's 970 Evo Plus.
You Can Take This Unbreakable SSD Swimming With You By Zhiye Liu The ECLLPSE is a portable SSD with up to 2TB of storage and data transer speeds up to 500 MBps.
Kioxia and Western Digital Build New 162-layer NAND Flash Memory By Aaron Klotz Kioxia and Western Digital detail new NAND flash architecture that should be significantly better than their previous designs.
