Storage

Valve has made a new change to the Steam Deck's original specifications, and is now allowing either a two-lane or four-lane NVMe SSD, which will reduce storage bandwidth on some models.

The Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus 8GB SSD uses a Phison E18 controller and 112-layer Kioxia TLC NAND.

The Viper VPR400 delivers PCIe 4.0 speeds and RGB lighting.

Industry analyst firm Trendfocus reports that Microsoft is moving to force OEMs to stop using HDDs for boot drives.

HighPoint has created two new fast M.2 RAID Controller PCIe cards, capable of housing up to eight drives, for a total of 64TB of storage and up to 28,000MB of bandwidth on a single card.

Phison showcases its PS5026-E26 SSD with Micron's 3D TLC NAND memory.

Apacer's new storage devices will be among the first PCIe 5.0 SSDs on the market.

OS-independent XTS-AES 256-bit encrypted device unlocks with your passcode or phrase and is said to safeguard against Brute Force attacks and BadUSB with its digitally-signed firmware.

AMD officially announced Smart Access Storage at Computex 2022. However, the company failed to disclose any serious new details.

Well over 1 Million IOPS

Deadbolt ransomware is targeting NAS devices using QTS 4.3.6 and QTS 4.4.1.

Western Digital readies BiCS6, BiCS+ 3D NAND memory for next-generation datacenter and client SSDs.

Western Digital says ePMR 2 technology will enable 32TB+ HDDs, but HAMR is needed for 50TB hard drives.

MaxLinear boosts its product portfolio with acquisition of SMI.

Seagate's special edition Star Wars HDDs have Boba Fett, Grogu, and The Mandalorian outside, and 2TB of SMR storage inside.

Storage device is designed to solve data retention issues of accidental file deletion or overwriting, and SSD wear. Special Windows software needs to be installed to write data but not for reading.

Solidigm, the former Intel SSD division, launched its new enterprise-grade D7-P5520 and D7-P5620 SSDs. The models provide more capacity and performance than the previous generation drives.

The 2-inch Kenzan Diamond wafers are expected to be commercialized in 2023, with 4-inch diamond wafers already in development.

Developments in tape storage technology and increasing attention to good backup philosophies explain the market's explosion.

Hard drives need energy-assisted magnetic recording to keep gaining areal density and capacity.