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Samsung Confirms Launch of Its PCIe Gen6 512 TB SSD for 2027
Samsung has confirmed that its PCIe Gen6 512 TB SSD will arrive in 2027. It won’t be alone—other memory makers are also preparing their own launches for the same period. Samsung’s PCIe Gen6 SSD At the GMIF Innovation Summit 2025 held in Shenzhen, Kevin Yoo, CTO of Samsung’s memory division,…
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SSD and HDD Prices Could Rise by Up to 30%
In the coming weeks, the prices of hard drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs) could increase by as much as 30%, marking one of the biggest price hikes in recent years. The main reason is the exponential growth in demand from data centers, especially those dedicated to artificial intelligence. These…
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Nvidia and Kioxia to Develop SSDs 100 Times Faster with Direct GPU Connection
Nvidia is working with Japanese company Kioxia to develop solid-state drives (SSDs) that connect directly to GPUs. The goal is to achieve major performance improvements for artificial intelligence applications. Direct GPU-to-SSD Communication Until now, SSDs interacted with GPUs by passing data through the CPU first. With this new technology, communication…
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Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Update Does Not Damage SSDs
Disturbing reports began to circulate on social media claiming that a Windows 11 update was causing failures in solid-state drives, especially those using Phison controllers. Users claimed that the Windows 11 security updates (mainly patches KB5063878 and KB5062660) caused failures in SSDs. According to the reports, these updates led to…
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Intel Nova Lake Desktop CPUs to Feature PCIe 5.0 for One GPU and Up to Four M.2 SSDs
More information is emerging about the upcoming Intel Nova Lake-S, a platform that will not see the light of day until at least 2026. After learning that it will come in configurations with up to 52 cores and that its native memory speed will start at 8,000 MT/s, we now…
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PCIe 6.0 SSDs Are Years Away, AMD and Intel Still Don’t Even Want to Consider It
Although the PCI Express 7.0 standard is already a reality, most home users are just starting to use PCI Express 5.0 connectivity. According to industry sources, such as Silicon Motion’s CEO Wallace C. Kuo (in a detailed interview with Tom’s Hardware), PCIe 6.0 SSDs are unlikely to arrive before 2030.…
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