Items tagged with Storage
Beelink Me Pro NAS: $379 - $559 ($459 As Tested) The Beelink Me Pro NAS is a modular, well-built, small for factor two-bay NAS device with good looks and an excellent feature set. Solid Performance Up To 5Gb Ethernet Fully-Featured PC...
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Would you rather settle for having less DRAM in your PC or less solid state drive (SSD) storage? It's a fair question in today's landscape, and according to Lexar, most gamers are more inclined to skimp on system memory versus skimping on...
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A modder on YouTube has successfully upgraded the base storage on a MacBook Neo by replacing the laptop's 256GB NAND chip with a 1TB module, effectively quadrupling the capacity, and everything turned out just fine. That said, this kind of...
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SK hynix says it has begun supplying client solid state drives (SSDs) based on its 321-layer quad-level cell (QLC) NAND flash memory that it trumped last summer, starting with Dell. Designed for the AI PC era, these consumer SSDs are...
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This may come as a shock, but unless you're on the latest builds of Windows Server, your Windows machine doesn't know about your NVMe disk. The standard StorNVMe.sys driver used since Windows 8.1 talks NVMe to NVMe SSDs, but it tosses that...
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How much storage do you need? It's a fair bet you could be satisfied with 2TB or less, which is the typical capacity of M.2 SSDs. If you need more, it's likely warm or cold data that could be stuffed onto relatively inexpensive spinning rust. Some folks truly need storage that's high-density...
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Holy Houdini, if the latest market projections from analyst firm Gartner prove correct, we're only two years away from sub-$500 PCs vanishing from the market entirely. The reason, as you may have already surmised, is a continued strain on memory and storage that will drive up prices even...
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Faster storage is en route to future high-end smartphones and other mobile devices, and it's coming in the form of UFS 5.0 chips based on the next-generation of Unified Flash Storage protocol. JEDEC is still in the process of standardizing...
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Microsoft’s Project Silica has achieved a breakthrough in data preservation by developing a higher-density glass storage system capable of archiving digital data for thousands of years without degradation. By utilizing femtosecond lasers...
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ORICO K20 Mini Magnetic Portable SSD: $209 (2TB) The ORICO K20 Mini is a compact, durable and highly-portable external SSD, with competitive performance and a unique trick up its sleeve. Durable Enclosure Good Performance Highly Portable...
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Remember the Samsung 9100 PRO? We reviewed it back in August. It's an amazing performer, and despite being a high-end PCI Express 5.0 SSD offering sequential speeds in excess of 13GB/second, it actually runs pretty cool thanks to the use...
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As Willie Nelson once said, "Turn out the lights, the party's over, they say that all good things must end." Those lyrics date all the way back to the 1950s, and so it's safe to say he was not referring to solid state drive (SSD) storage...
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Micron's out at the Consumer Electronics Show shouting, 'You get a Gen5 SSD, you get Gen5 SSD, you get a Gen5 SSD!'. Okay, maybe not quite literally, but it did use the annual tech showcase as a launchpad for its new Micron 3610 NVMe solid...
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SanDisk is bidding farewell to its WD Black and WD Blue storage brands and replacing them with its new Optimus line, which it has broken down into three performance tiers: Optimus, Optimus GX, and Optimus GX Pro. A bolder design...
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Kioxia is expanding its range of client solid state drives with its new BG7 series. Most of the new SSDs feature the company's 8th generation BiCS Flash 3D featuring CMOS directly Bonded to Array (CBA) technology. The only exception is the...
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The headline sounds like one of those things that's way too good to be true. Like a scam you'd find on a shady website; "install this SSD driver for huge speed gains!" It's real, though, and it's because one of the unfortunate realities of...
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Sometimes we can all use a little reassurance that everything will be okay. If you're PC enthusiast, now is definitely one of those times, as the booming AI market is gobbling up NAND flash memory chips and other hardware at a breakneck...
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Are we about to lose another NAND flash brand in the consumer storage space? Following Micron's decision to pull its 29-year-old Crucial brand from the consumer market to focus on higher margin data center clients, rumors began to swirl...
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SPhotonix is the latest big name in 5D glass storage technology, and it's proving to be quite ambitious in its goal to bring the technology to market, estimating "another three or four years of R&D" to get it there.
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Crucial X10 Portable SSD (2TB): MSRP - $239, Sale Price - $209 The Crucial X10 is a rugged, dust and water-resistant external USB SSD, that offers excellent performance in a compact package. Compact Enclosure IP65 Dust And Water Resistance Broad Compatibility High Capacities Available Strong...
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Storage prices may be on the rise (boo!), but flagship solid state drives are also getting faster (hooray!). We've seen a handful of new SSDs push the envelope lately, and Silicon Power's new XPower XS90 Gen 5 SSD joins the bunch with...
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Samsung is showing off a couple of new storage products that it plans to showcase at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January 2026, one of which is a cleverly designed solid state drive (SSD) with a modular aspect to it. Called the...
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