Storage

Seagate is about to start sales of M.2-2230 FireCuda 520N SSDs for ROG Ally and Steam Deck consoles, as well as compact PCs.

Japanese banks are ready to finance buyout of Kioxia by Western Digital.

Fixing prices from the supply side.

Huirong manager Liu Yaoren has made a prediction that PCIe Gen 5 SSDs will finally make their way into notebook computers in just a few months, by the end of 2024.

DirectStorage is not even required to fix it.

Sabrent has cut the price of its recently released Rocket Q4 2230 NVMe 4.0 2 TB, a highly compact drive which targets handheld gaming PC upgraders.

Startup Cerabyte has Yottabyte sized plans for the storage industry using disruptive ceramic nano technology for TB/cm2 densities.

Toyota's shutdown of 14 factories in late August was due to an error that occurred because of "insufficient disk space" on its servers.

HighPoint has created the world's first dual-slot NVMe add-in card.

Gigabyte unveiled the successor to its Aorus Gen5 10000 SSD: the Aorus Gen5 12000 SSD, which has sequential read speeds of up to 12.4 GB/s and sequential write speeds of up to 11.8 GB/s.

EaseUS posted the results of two storage surveys, covering HDD and SSD usage patterns.

External M.2 SSD cases custom made to fit just 2230 form factor drives start to become available.

A faulty SSD’s data was accessible again when G-glamped at a certain spot. Now it is fully repaired thanks to hot air rework.

Switching from HDD to tape for cold storage will cut costs, and benefit the planet, research increasingly shows.

WD / SanDisk faces a class action suit after a swell of external SSD reliability / failure complaints back in May.

Hard drive sales expected to be strong through 2028

Solid State Drives Meet Solid State Cooling

Kioxia Weds CXL with XL Flash and 3D NAND.

Phison ups performance of PS5026-E26-based drives to 14 GB/s.

SK Hynix aims to produce 321-layer TLC NAND in 1H 2025.