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 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…
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…
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…
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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…
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…
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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…
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Western Digital’s FMS 2024 demonstrations included a preview of their upcoming PCIe 5.0 x4 M.2 2280 NVMe SSDs for mobile workstations and consumer desktops. The Gen 5 client SSD market has been dominated by solutions based on Phison’s E26 controller. The first generation products launched with slower NAND flash, while the more recent ones have…
Western Digital Previews M.2 2280 PCIe 5.0 x4 NVMe Client SSDs: 15GBps at Under 7 Watts Read More »
A week after Western Digital confirmed that it had begun sampling of its 64 TB SSDs for datacenters, the company has teased its next-generation product, a 128 TB solid-state drive at FMS 2024. For now, all we know about Western Digital’s 128 TB SSD is that it uses the company’s BiCS8 QLC NAND memory and…
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In an unexpected announcement during their quarterly earnings call this week, Western Digital revealed that it has begun sampling an upcoming 32TB hard drive. The nearline HDD is aimed at hyperscalers, and relies on a combination of Westen Digital’s EAMR technology, as well as shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology to hit their highest capacity figures…
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