Ssd articles

More practical PCIe 5.0 SSDs will finally arrive this year based on the SiliconMotion SM2508 controller

In context: Up until now, the only PCIe 5.0 SSDs on the market have been powered by the Phison E26 controller. They're certainly fast, with sequential speeds of over 12GB/s, but they also run incredibly hot and are power-hungry. We're talking active cooling requirements and over 11W of power draw under load, which is not exactly ideal for rigs.

Western Digital's new budget NVMe SSDs arrive at peculiar price points

SSD prices could see a decline as NAND production ramps up

Gigabyte's AI Top SSD claims extreme 219,000 TBW endurance, leaves other drives in the dust

MSI shows off hot-swappable PCIe Gen 5 SSD expansion card that looks like a video card

Patriot showcases DDR5 that overclocks to 11,500 MT/s

Portable SSD with AirJet tech runs 20C cooler, achieves 2x sustained performance

Dell expects memory and SSD prices to jump an additional 20% this year

HighPoint opens pre-orders for PCIe Gen 5 Rocket RAID card capable of 56 GB/s

SSD price hike hits buyers hard, double-digit increase on the way

RISC-V SSD controller provides 14GB/s transfers without a cooling solution

Western Digital's latest entry-level SSDs offer decent performance but there's a catch

Microsoft Z1000 SSD engineering sample highlights enterprise collaboration with CNEX Labs

This drop-in SSD can replace outdated SCSI drives

Samsung releases security fix for Magician SSD software

Kioxia sent 130 TB of solid-state storage to the International Space Station

Samsung's new QLC Flash could bring 16TB SSDs to market

Forward-looking: Multi-level memory cells (MLC) can store more than a single bit of digital information at the same time, and MLC chips are the cornerstone of modern solid-state drives. Samsung is about to introduce a new generation of SSDs based on quad-level memory cells (QLC), providing unprecedented areal density for storage applications.

Teamgroup readies new T-Force Ge Pro low-profile, low-wattage PCIe 5.0 SSDs

Samsung's new 990 EVO PCIe SSD offers both PCIe 4.0 x4 and PCIe 5.0 x2 connectivity

It's possible to overclock SSDs, but you probably shouldn't

In a nutshell: Squeezing every bit of performance out of a PC – whether for sport or from a value position – is what overclocking is all about. Ramping up clock speeds, increasing voltage settings, and tightening memory timings are all common ways to make CPUs, GPUs, and memory run faster, but did you know it's technically possible to apply some of these same techniques to solid-state drives?

Some Ryzen 8000G APUs could drastically reduce SSD and GPU performance

Micron demos PCIe 5.0 RAID array cooled by AirJet Mini technology