Western Digital unveils massive 40TB HDD with energy-assisted recording tech — plans 100TB HAMR hard drives by 2029

Western Digital announces HDD roadmap till 2029 at its Innovation Day.

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Fake Samsung 990 Pro passes basic checks but runs slower than a USB 2.0 drive — counterfeit SSDs proliferate as NAND shortage creates the perfect storm for bogus deals

A Redditor recounts his experience with a Samsung 990 Pro clone that looks like the real deal.

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Lexar Play SE 4TB SSD Review: The oddball of the bunch

The Lexar Play SE is a capacious but strange NVMe SSD with rare hardware. It puts up meager numbers.

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Grab a speedy 256GB Samsung USB-C flash drive for just $24.99 — save 52% on tiny waterproof storage for your important files and photos with speeds of up to 400 MB/s

Amazon-owned Woot has slashed the price of this 256GB Samsung USB-C NAND flash drive to just $24.99, securing you a cheap backup drive with a better-than-half-price saving.
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Researcher builds bizarre 128-byte USB drive the size of a dinner plate using ancient pre-semiconductor magnetic core memory technology — data disappears once it is read, requiring special handling

A computing enthusiast has assembled one of the most bizarre low-capacity USB drives we have ever seen.

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Open source IDE-ATAPI drive emulator launches for vintage computers — drop-in 3.5-inch bay solution can save oodles of optical and HDD images to a microSD

PicoIDE is touted as ‘an open source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator for vintage computers.’

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Sandisk crushes wallets with up to 2.8X SSD price hikes as NAND shortage strangles the market — WD Black SN8100 8TB skyrockets past $2,500, more than a high-end gaming PC

Sandisk has significantly increased prices on SSDs sold through its online store, with some models seeing increases of up to xx.
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Biwin Black Opal NV7400 2TB SSD Review: Another Arrow in Biwin’s Quiver

The Biwin Black Opal NV7400 is a solid performer with reasonable power efficiency and no real downsides.

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TeamGroup NV5000 2TB SSD Review: A Blast from the Past

The TeamGroup NV5000 is a storage device first and an SSD second. It fulfills the function that older SSDs did and without using any truly new hardware.
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Micron starts building new 3D NAND fab in Singapore – Fab 10B promises to more than double the company’s local flash production capacity

Micron’s Fab 10B, now under construction in Singapore, promises to more than double the company’s 3D NAND output from the region when it is fully operational in about 10 years.
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