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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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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AGI AI858 2TB SSD Review — High-end PCIe 5 speeds on a budget

The AGI AI858 is a wallet-friendly entry into the high-end PCIe 5.0 SSD playground with good random read latency, a bundled heatsink, and minimal trade-offs.
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Nvidia’s high-speed AI data center storage servers break cover, touting 2.9 petabytes of storage and extreme PCIe 6.0 performance — Wiwynn shows off SCADA server with GPU-accelerated storage

Wiwynn is among the first to demonstrate Nvidia SCADA server that promises to offer AI systems petabytes of ultra-fast storage thanks to GPU-accelerated storage acceleration.
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Crushing shortages force Biwin into $1.86 billion NAND deal for SSDs — multi-year agreement locks in fixed pricing as spot market threatens to dry up

Biwin signs a 24-months supply agreement with an unknown NAND maker to get memory worth $1.86 billion.

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