No fewer than 11 platters on a single 3.5-inch hard disk: Western Digital breaks all records
There seems to be no limit to the capacity of "traditional" hard disks: Western Digital has just pushed back one more! [...]
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"Rewiring" your SSD with SLC memory to boost endurance? Difficult, but not impossible
A computer engineer has completed his project to "convert" an SSD using NAND QLC to NAND SLC. This is the kind of project that is a little bit [...]
NAND prices soar, SSD prices soar: it's likely to stay that way for a while!
For at least the whole of the first half of 2024, prices should continue to rise for components associated with NAND memory. In the first half of 2023, [...]
What about SSD overclocking?
Beware: overclocking can damage components... in the case of this SSD, there's even talk of its irretrievable demise! For many, many years now, PC users have been asking [...]
321-layer flash memory from SK Hynix
Used in smarpthones as well as in USB sticks and SSDs, NAND is becoming increasingly complex. Invented by Toshiba in 1989, NAND is a kind of "memory". [...]
PCI Express 5.0 SSDs are slowly coming into their own
However, we're still a long way from the time when even an entry-level laptop will feature such a storage device. As of 2019, the PCI Express Gen [...]
First PCI Express 5.0 SSDs experience overheating problems
Fortunately, Phison - the controller's designer - has already prepared a patch. PCI Express Gen 5 once again doubles the bandwidth compared to PCI Express Gen 2. [...]
Seagate launches SSDs "lightsaber collection" and pushes its prices a bit!
SSD models with the Star Wars logo are priceless. Well, yes, they are, and they're pretty expensive. Disk specialist [...]
Multi-arm allows Western Digital hard drives to approach SSD speeds
While they can't match the performance of NVMe SSDs, Western Digital's latest drives are getting closer to SATA SSDs, if they've finally jumped on the SSD bandwagon, [...]
Samsung's latest SSD affected by accelerated wear and tear?
After AMD, another big name in the microcomputer industry is affected by what seems to be a reliability problem with a high-end component. As a rule, components [...]
Ronna/ronto and queta/quecto: four new prefixes for our data
Because yottabytes were no longer sufficient, new prefixes were adopted a few days ago not far from Paris. According to some specialists, in less than [...]
Kingston maintains leadership in the SSD market
The American company is solidly in the lead in SSD sales worldwide, despite a slight dip. If, in the past, it could be said that SSDs, with the wind in their sails [...]
Five-year study confirms SSDs are far more reliable than HDDs
Cloud company Backblaze releases results confirming that SSDs are indeed more reliable than "traditional" hard drives. For anyone [...]
Corsair and then Gigabyte talk about the first PCI Express 5.0 SSDs and their fantastic data rates
More than 10 Gb/s will only be useful in specific cases... for now. Last November, Intel was the first to bring to market a [...]
In a market that continues to decline, Western Digital markets hard drives with a capacity of 22 TB
While hard drives are selling at an all-time low, capacities continue to advance to counter SSDs where they are still partially possible. For years, [...]