Kioxia has started shipping samples of its ninth‑generation BiCS FLASH 512 Gb TLC chips built with CBA tech — pairing legacy memory cell layers with modern CMOS controllers. The result: improved performance, efficiency, and lower cost, while paving way for high‑capacity BiCS 10 launches.
Despite being on the U.S. Entity List since 2022 and cut off from advanced foreign fab tools, YMTC is pushing forward with plans to expand production to 150,000 wafers per month and trial a fully localized manufacturing line.
Seagate has released its first mass-market HAMR hard drives — the Exos M and IronWolf Pro up to 30TB — marking a milestone in storage density for such HDDs.
Silicon Motion is expected to formally introduce its first PCIe Gen6 controller for next-generation data center SSDs at the upcoming FMS 2025 conference next month, according to a leak.
Western Digital makes some of the best storage devices out there, and their external hard drives are no exception. You can get the 6TB My Passport for just $139 and a 5TB Elements HDD for even cheaper at $115—two great discounts for mass storage.
Samsung makes some of the best SSDs out there and their budget offering, the 990 EVO Plus, has just gone on the best sale we've ever seen. You can get this Gen4 NVMe for just $119 on Prime Day, and it's a lot of drive for that price.
Steam's hardware survey for June 2025 reveals that gamers have less free storage space available compared to last month. The largest group of Steam gamers has only 100 -249 GB of free storage space available to install new games.