SSD prices could be on the verge of skyrocketing due to increased NAND flash memory demandPricing for NAND flash has doubled over the last six monthsThis is due to the AI boom, with more data centers shifting from hard drives to SSDsWe’re fast approaching Black Friday and the holiday season sales in the latter stages…
China is introducing new export controls on rare-earth elementsThose elements are used in making a whole lot of PC componentsThis could exert further pricing pressures on the makers of those components, on top of already-existing market forces pushing up the cost of drives and RAMIf you didn’t want to hear more negativity about further pressures…
SSD and HDD prices are going up again, due to increased AI demand for NAND productsWestern Digital has already implemented a price surge on HDDs, effective immediatelyOther manufacturers are expected to follow suitFor both gamers and creative professionals, storage space and transfer speeds are crucial to achieving the best experiences with the best SSDs. Their…
Solid-state drive (SSD) prices per gigabyte (GB) dropped over the last two quarters – since the beginning of September 2024 – while SAS hard disk drive (HDD) prices increased over the same period. Flash drive prices (MLC, TLC and QLC) fell from an average of $0.085/GB to just under $0.079/GB. That’s a 7% decrease. At…
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SSD prices could drop by something like 10% in the near future, so you might want to hold fire on any potential drive purchase for now.The fresh pricing prediction comes from analyst firm TrendForce which regularly produces reports on memory pricing, and the latest such forecast for the storage market is that NAND Flash contract…
Number three in the hard drive maker’s league, Toshiba, has announced products of 24TB and 28TB. These are the 24TB MG11, which is conventional magnetic recording (CMR) HDD technology, and the 28TB MA11, which uses shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology. Seagate was the first to market around a year ago with similar drives, the CMR…
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Kioxia’s booth at FMS 2024 was a busy one with multiple technology demonstrations keeping visitors occupied. A walk-through of the BiCS 8 manufacturing process was the first to grab my attention. Kioxia and Western Digital announced the sampling of BiCS 8 in March 2023. We had touched briefly upon its CMOS Bonded Array (CBA) scheme…
Kioxia Details BiCS 8 NAND at FMS 2024: 218 Layers With Superior Scaling Read More »
Western Digital’s BiCS8 218-layer 3D NAND is being put to good use in a wide range of client and enterprise platforms, including WD’s upcoming Gen 5 client SSDs and 128 TB-class datacenter SSD. On the external storage front, the company demonstrated four different products: for card-based media, 4 TB microSDUC and 8 TB SDUC cards…
Western Digital Introduces 4 TB microSDUC, 8 TB SDUC, and 16 TB External SSDs Read More »
The growth in the enterprise SSD (eSSD) market has outpaced that of the client SSD market over the last few years. The requirements of AI servers for both training and inference has been the major impetus in this front. In addition to the usual vendors like Samsung, Solidigm, Micron, Kioxia, and Western Digital serving the…
DapuStor and Memblaze Target Global Expansion with State-of-the-Art Enterprise SSDs Read More »
When Western Digital introduced its Ultrastar DC SN861 SSDs earlier this year, the company did not disclose which controller it used for these drives, which made many observers presume that WD was using an in-house controller. But a recent teardown of the drive shows that is not the case; instead, the company is using a…
