WD’s 2TB Black SSD price drops by nearly 20% ahead of Prime Day sale — grab the 2TB SN7100 for $242.96

The WD Black SN7100 stands out for its high-end performance, low operating temperatures, and impressive efficiency. It is one of the few PCIe 4.0 SSDs that can compete with flagship drives while consuming noticeably less p…

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Woot slashes up to 46% off these WD Black SN850P SSDs for PC and PS5 — 1TB for $189, 2TB for $299, and 4TB for $549

Grab a great discount on these officially licensed PlayStation 5 SSDs at Woot. The WD Black SN850P in 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB capacities is discounted up to 46% today, or until stocks run out.
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16-year-old SATA II SSD survives 1 petabyte of writes — 25x more than the drive’s endurance rating

As part of an experiment, an enthusiast has written one petabyte of data on a legacy Sandisk P4 SATA II SSD that was released 16 years ago.
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Retro pirate gets two-year suspended jail sentence for being stuck in the past, burning and selling remix CDs of famous artists — four-year investigation into copyright infringement on 40-year-old medium began in 2018

A UK man has been sentenced after pleading guilty to the unauthorized mixing and selling of music CDs, and thus breaking copyright laws. It is 2026.
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Chinese makers of DRAM modules, SSDs have a serious advantage over American and Taiwanese suppliers, says SMI SVP — state guidance secures local DRAM and SSD supply while the Big Three chase AI margins

CCP directives can be lifebuoy for Chinese producers of DRAM modules and solid-state drives as domestic memory makers may be obliged to support the module industry.
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Fight the price rises on SSDs with this 31% saving on Samsung’s brilliant 1TB 990 Pro SSD — now $219 at Amazon, lowest price since April

Save $100 off the price of this 1TB Samsung 990 Pro SSD. Amazon’s 31% discount fights off the current storage price rises.
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SMI says Nvidia is driving its consumer PCIe 6.0 roadmap, not AMD and Intel — RTX Spark agentic AI platform fuels a hunger for storage bandwidth

Nvidia may be ahead of AMD and Intel with PCIe Gen6-supporting platform for client PCs due to its client agentic AI ambitions, and that roadmap has suppliers like Silicon Motion paying attention.
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SanDisk Optimus GX Pro 8100 8TB SSD Review — the undisputed king of high-capacity PCIe 5.0 SSDs

The SanDisk Optimus GX Pro 8100 is a top-tier drive with excellent performance, exceptional random read latency, and good power efficiency. As you’d imagine, it just has a pricing issue.
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‘The retail SSD market has almost disappeared,’ says Silicon Motion exec — PC OEMs are buying third-party drives as direct NAND supply dries up

Vice president of client storage solutions at Silicon Motion warns that the retail SSD market has almost disappeared as NAND makers prioritize shipments of memory to AI data centers.
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SMI’s PCIe 6.0 SSD controller for consumer SSDs coming next year, but severe NAND shortages will get even worse in 2027 as AI data centers swallow supply — An interview with Silicon Motion’s SVP Nelson Duann

Silicon Motion’s Nelson Duann discusses NAND supply crisis in the consumer SSD market and the future of consumer storage.
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