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Amazon Prime Day is just around the corner, but Samsung's 2TB 990 Pro SSD is already selling for $149

2025年6月23日 20:35

Amazon Prime Day is on the near horizon, but you don't need to wait to get a great price on Samsung's 2TB 990 Pro SSD.

Tech Deals cover image featuring a Samsung 990 Pro SSD

Tomshardware

Acer Predator GM9000 2TB SSD Review: The Bargain High-End PCIe 5.0 SSD

2025年6月21日 22:10

The Acer Predator GM9000 is a high-end PCIe 5.0 drive positioned as a budget entry in an enthusiast market segment.

Tomshardware

Windows 11 24H2 updates are still failing on Western Digital's SN770, despite the fact that a fix came out 8 months ago — here's what to do if you're stuck

作者 ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov)

2025年6月20日 18:39

Microsoft is blocking Windows 11 version 24H2 on systems with WD Black SN770 SSDs due to a firmware issue, yet offers no clear guidance to users despite a firmware fix having been available since October 2024.

Cult of Mac

This SanDisk SSD clings to iPhone to record terabytes of high-res video [Review] ★★★★☆

作者 Ed Hardy

2025年6月20日 00:45

We go hands on with the SanDisk Creator Phone SSD designed for people recording large amounts of 4K ProRes video with an iPhone Pro/Pro Max.

(via Cult of Mac - Your source for the latest Apple news, rumors, analysis, reviews, how-tos and deals.)

Tomshardware

The Crucial P510 2TB SSD Review: A budget PCIe 5.0 SSD that's good but not great

2025年6月19日 21:03

The Crucial P510 is a budget PCIe 5.0 SSD designed to bring more bandwidth than last-generation drives while being power-efficient and more affordable than the newest high-end drives. It mostly achieves these goals.

Tomshardware

Grab one of these 4TB SSDs for 5 cents per gigabyte – 8TB models start as low as 7 cents per GB

2025年6月19日 20:35

Roomy 4TB SSDs cost a lot less than they used to, and even some 8TB models are approaching affordability.

Tomshardware

Lucky PC builder pays just $146 for 2TB 990 Evo Plus SSD, receives 9 — Amazon blunder so unbelievable some people think it's a marketing conspiracy

2025年6月19日 19:08

After an Amazon shopper strikes it lucky by receiving nine 2TB SSDs instead of one, it doesn't take long for conspiracy theorists to come to the fore.

Box of nine 2TB Samsung 990 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 SSDs

Cult of Mac

Slim NVMe SSD enclosure pairs perfectly with M4 Mac mini

作者 Ed Hardy

2025年6月18日 01:30

Adding a fast SSD to the Mac mini M4 just got easier with the Satechi USB4 Slim NVMe SSD Enclosure, which supports USB4.

(via Cult of Mac - Your source for the latest Apple news, rumors, analysis, reviews, how-tos and deals.)

Tomshardware

Speedy MSI 2TB PCIe 4.0 SSD hits 5 cents per gigabyte – lowest price since Cyber Monday

2025年6月17日 23:17

Games keep getting bigger, so a 1TB SSD won't go very far. So pick up this 2TB TLC drive for just $105? That's not much more than the typical price of a good 1TB drive.

Tomshardware

Phison E28 2TB SSD Review: A return for vengeance

2025年6月17日 01:42

The Phison E28 is a return to form, offering excellent performance and power efficiency. It’s an all-around impressive package.

Tomshardware

PCIe 6.0 SSDs for PCs won't arrive until 2030 — costs and complexity mean PCIe 5.0 SSDs are here to stay for some time

作者 ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov)

2025年6月14日 22:11

Client PC PCIe 6.0 x4 SSDs offering up to 32 GB/s bandwidth are not arriving until around 2030 due to high implementation costs, according to Silicon Motion CEO.

Tomshardware

SMI CEO claims Nvidia wants SSDs with 100 million IOPS — up to 33X performance uplift could eliminate AI GPU bottlenecks

作者 ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov)

2025年6月14日 04:58

The chief executive of Silicon Motion said in an interview that Nvidia is looking forward to ridiculously fast storage devices to eliminate performance bottlenecks for its AI GPUs.

Tomshardware

Crucial X10 Portable SSD (4TB) review: 20 Gbps, up to 8TB

2025年6月14日 00:54

Crucial’s latest X10 portable SSD is faster and roomier than its predecessors, but USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 feels dated now that USB4 is readily available.

Tomshardware

SMI CEO says no PCIe 6.0 SSDs for PC 'until 2030', Nvidia demands SSDs with 100 million IOPS — Wallace C. Kou on the future of SSDs

作者 ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov)

2025年6月12日 18:19

The CEO of Silicon Motion discusses the prospects of independent developers of SSD controllers, PCIe 6.0 SSDs, PLC 3D NAND, and other exotic types of non-volatile memory, as well as why NAND makers are poised to continue using controllers from third parties.

Wallace C. Kuo, chief executive of Silicon Motion.

Cult of Mac

Tiny external SSD easily plugs into new and old computers

作者 Ed Hardy

2025年6月12日 23:15

The PNY Duo Link V3 external SSD includes both a USB-C and a USB-A connector, supports speedy USB 3.2 Gen 2, and is price competitive.

(via Cult of Mac - Your source for the latest Apple news, rumors, analysis, reviews, how-tos and deals.)

Tomshardware

Banned China chipmaker YMTC sues Micron again, now over serious defamation claims — Micron funded anti-Chinese tech misinformation campaigns to get ahead, says YMTC

2025年6月12日 01:51

Yangtze Memory Technologies Company has launched its second lawsuit against Micron within the last two years, the third total in their lengthy legal battle. The new suit accuses Micron of funding a lengthy astroturfing misinformation campaign aimed at slanderizing YMTC in the American market.

Tomshardware

Crucial's 2TB T500, one of the fastest PCIe Gen 4 SSDs available at 7400MB/s, is now only $132

2025年6月9日 20:50

Crucial's T500 2TB SSD is on sale for just $132. A great price for one of the fastest Gen 4 drives on the market.

Tomshardware

Micron balks at court order to share 73 pages of sensitive data with China's banned YMTC chipmaker — Micron strives to protect IP from Chinese chip firm on the entity list

作者 ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov)

2025年6月9日 20:40

Micron has petitioned the Supreme Court to reverse earlier rulings that granted YMTC’s legal team access to 73 pages of confidential 3D NAND documents, citing national security concerns.

Tomshardware

The super fast Samsung 9100 Pro 4TB SSD is now just $449 at Amazon

2025年6月7日 23:57

The Samsung 9100 Pro 4TB SSD is now only $449 at Amazon, the lowest price we've seen for this super-fast SSD since it first launched.

Tomshardware

Kioxia preps XL-Flash SSD that's 3x faster than any SSD available — 10 million IOPS drive has peer-to-peer GPU connectivity for AI servers

作者 ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov)

2025年6月7日 20:11

Kioxia is developing a 10M IOPS XL-Flash SSD with peer-to-peer GPU connectivity to eliminate bottlenecks and deliver low-latency, small-block access optimized for AI training and inference workloads.

Tomshardware

TeamGroup's curious PCIe 5.0 SSD strategy: Adopt controllers from all makers

作者 ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov)

2025年5月31日 21:15

TeamGroup has expanded its high-end PCIe 5.0 SSD lineup to six different families based on four controller vendors to cover a wide range of performance and price points.

Tomshardware

Realtek eyes SSDs with new PCIe 5.0 x4 DRAM-less controller — Up to 10 GB/s and 1.4M IOPS

作者 ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov)

2025年5月31日 02:23

Realtek is attempting to enter the SSD controller market with its RTS5781DL, a PCIe 5.0 DRAM-less controller that is now sampling. But can it compete with established players?

Tomshardware

A new SSD form factor can house a staggering 1,000,000 GB of storage – E2 drives could store 11,000 4K movies with 80W power draw

作者 stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick)

2025年5月31日 01:24

E2 is a new flash form factor

Tomshardware

Custom PCIe 5.0 SSD with 3D XL-Flash debuts — special Optane-like flash memory delivers up to 3.5 million random IOPS

作者 ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov)

2025年5月30日 17:58

InnoGrit demonstrates reference solid-state drive based on Kioxia's XL-Flash memory: custom-built XL-Flash-based drives on the way?

Tomshardware

Biwin unveils PCIe Gen5 SSD with 14,500 MB/s read speeds

作者 ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov)

2025年5月29日 23:29

Biwin officially launches the Maxio MAP1806-based X570 SSD that is expected to offer leading-edge performance and a low price.

Tomshardware

The high-end PCIe 5.0 SSD monopoly could be about to end: Silicon Motion’s new SSD controllers were everywhere at Computex

作者 ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov)

2025年5月29日 18:32

Silicon Motion is breaking Phison’s monopoly in the high-end PCIe 5.0 SSD market as over a dozen companies, including Micron, Crucial, Kingston, and Lexar, adopt its SM2508 controller.

Tomshardware

Sandisk WD Black SN8100 2TB SSD Review: The fastest overall consumer SSD ever made

2025年5月28日 21:03

The Sandisk WD Black SN8100 is the dream drive everybody wants. It was worth the wait, now it just has to be worth the price.

Tomshardware

Utran's $3,000 add-in card holds 28 M.2 SSDs and delivers 109 GB/s — 400-Watt card houses up to 224TB of storage

作者 ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov)

2025年5月27日 18:57

Utran demonstrated an overkill 28-way M.2 SSD card that offers unbeatable capacity and performance, but at a massive price.

Tomshardware

4TB SSDs now as low as $0.05 per GB, Samsung at $0.06 per GB

2025年5月26日 23:55

Now is a good time to get a 4TB SSD.

Tomshardware

The 8TB WD Black SN850X PCIe Gen4 SSD is now just $589 at Amazon

2025年5月25日 23:47

The WD_Black SN850X 8TB SSD heatsink edition is now $589 at Amazon in a wave of early Memorial Day weekend sales emerge.

Tomshardware

Silicon Motion enables PCIe 5.0 SSDs at mainstream prices with SM2504XT controller

作者 ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov)

2025年5月16日 03:38

Silicon Motion will showcase its SM2504XT PCIe 5.0 x4 SSD controller at Computex 2025, bringing high-end performance and efficiency to the mainstream SSD market.