In this podcast, we look at the roadmap for spinning disk HDD capacity with Rainer W Kaese, senior manager in business development for storage products at Toshiba Electronics Europe. We talk about the likely disk drive capacities we can see in the next four or five year as we head into the 30TB and 40TB…
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SK hynix is one of the few vertically integrated manufacturers in the flash-based storage market (along with Samsung, Micron / Crucial, Western Digital, and Kioxia). The company is well-established in the OEM market. A few years back, they also started exploring direct end-user products. Internal SSDs (starting with the Gold S31 and Gold P31) were…
SK hynix Tube T31 Stick SSD Review: Bridging Solution Springs A Surprise Read More »
While desktop PC power supplies receive the bulk of enthusiasts’ attention for good reasons – not the least of which being the vast selection of options that comes from being a standardized part – power supplies as a whole aren’t just a concern for big PCs. With the majority of PC sales having flipped to…
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Lexar has a long history of serving the flash-based consumer storage market in the form of SSDs, memory cards, and USB flash drives. After having started out as a Micron brand, the company was acquired in 2017 by Longsys which has diversified its product lineup with regular introduction of new products. Recently, the company announced…
Lexar SL500 Portable SSD Review: Silicon Motion SM2320 and YMTC NAND in a Potent Package Read More »
Toshiba and Orange have carried out an experiment to test quantum-safe networking that could be applied in existing fibre optic networks. The two companies announced they have conducted a detailed series of successful evaluations that delivered quantum key distribution (QKD) coexisting alongside conventional dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) data signals. They also showed 400Gbps quantum secure…
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Over the last year, we’ve been looking at increasingly intricate 1000W power supplies from prolific PSU maker FSP. These have included their 80Plus Gold-rated Hydro G Pro, as well as their 80Plus Platinum rated Hydro PTM X Pro. Today we’re finally capping things off with a look at the crème de la crème of the…
The FSP Hydro Ti Pro 1000W PSU Review: Titanium Shines for FSP’s Flagship Power Supply Read More »
Will flash kill spinning disk in the next five years? One notable storage player believes so, but plenty of voices argue there is life in the hard disk drive (HDD) yet. Meanwhile, quad-level cell (QLC) flash went mainstream with benefits in cost and capacity. Toyota suffered an outage for 36 hours at 14 car plants.…
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In our series of Hard Disk Drive guides, here’s the latest update to our list of recommended HDDs. All numbers in the text are updated to reflect pricing at the time of writing. Best Internal Hard Drives: Holiday 2023 Data storage requirements have kept increasing over the last several years. SSDs have taken over the…
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Once the domain of external, bus-powered hard drives, these days the market for external storage has been almost completely consumed by portable SSDs. Rapid technological advancements in NAND flash technology (including the advent of 3D NAND) has allowed their capacity to eclipse 2.5-inch HDDs, all the while multiple improvements in host interface speeds (such as…
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Samsung’s portable SSD lineup has enjoyed significant market success since the launch of the T1 back in 2015. Despite the release of the Thunderbolt-capable X5 PSSD in 2018, the company has been focusing primarily on the mainstream market with its T series drives. The first set of PSSDs from Samsung incorporated a SATA SSD behind…
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