Here you will find all the articles with the tag: SSD.
Samsung is currently testing a new range of microSD cards based on the so-called SD Express (SD XC EX) standard. Samsung promises faster read speeds than those of current (micro)SD cards. This would theoretically make them suitable for storage capacity in PCs. With the new SD XC EX technology, ... Read more
2 months ago
The Japanese manufacturer of NAND memory chips and SSDs, Kioxia, may yet be talking to Western Digital (WD) again about a possible merger of their NAND/SSD units. Also, the majority shareholder, Bain Capital, is said to want to give guarantees to fellow stakeholder SK Hynix. About half a year af... Read more
3 months ago
HDD sales have been in decline for years. Pure Storage stated earlier this year that the end of this ancient storage medium is near, after which many parties made the case for the continued survival of the hard disk drive. Can we ever say goodbye to the HDD, and if so, when? Pure Storage's messa... Read more
4 months ago
Expert talks
Flash memory was, without doubt, a groundbreaking technology when it first entered enterprise datacenters around two decades ago and immediately began transforming the performance of a wide range of applications. We wanted to understand the relationship between flash and the revolutionary developme... Read more
5 months ago
Storage is getting more compact with time, but the Kingston XS1000 SSD has taken this trend to an extreme. Measuring at just 69.5 x 32.58 x 13.5mm, the external drive is easy to carry in your pocket, even while offering up to 2 terabytes of storage to choose from. The XS1000 is also a featherwei... Read more
8 months ago
Samsung made several announcements at the Flash Memory Summit 2023 in Santa Clara. It unveiled a concept version of a 256TB SSD, giving the PM1743 SSD for servers a PCIe 5.0 upgrade. The first users of that server storage would be generative AI developers. The South Korean giant additionally unv... Read more
8 months ago
Shawn Rosemarin of Pure Storage thinks hard disk drives will remain on the market for only a few more years. The storage company's VP of R&D predicts to Blocks & Files that rising electricity costs will spell the end of HDDs in the enterprise market. Rosemarin is clear about the state of... Read more
12 months ago
SSDs will only continue to grow in popularity, according to market researcher Technavio. The enterprise market in particular is driving the increased demand. Laptop users are also saying goodbye to hard drives in larger numbers. As companies such as Samsung are scaling back production of memory ... Read more
1 year ago
Storage needs a makeover. Often thought of as back-office donkey/grunt work, we all recognise the need and importance of storage, but not many of us want to focus on it as a computing discipline in and of itself. Which is wrong, obviously. Notwithstanding the fact that one Australian tech news p... Read more
1 year ago
Despite discontinuing its Optane portfolio in July, Intel has quietly released two new Optane 3D Xpoint SSDs. The models make up the new Optane SSD DX P5810X Series. According to The Register, Intel refrained from publicly announcing the new Optane SSDs. Instead, the models were discovered in th... Read more
1 year ago
