The patent application for the floppy disk was granted to two IBM engineers on this day in 1972.
The Acer MA200 is a competent M.2 2230 NVMe SSD with reasonably good performance and power-efficiency, even if it’s not the fastest drive out there.
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Sales of Silicon Motion’s SSD controllers are record high, but supply of NAND for client applications may get worse in 2027, the company tells us.
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TeamGroup released a plethora of new SSDs and RAM kits at Computex 2026, offering a mixture of design, performance, and security.
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A storage-based cybersecurity system extends deleted data recovery to 126 days with minimal impact on drive speed.
Phison’s booth at Computex 2026 had its new PCIe 6.0 SSD controller, dubbed the X3, on display, with claims of up to 28 GB/s of sequential throughput and 6.8 million IOPS in random read/write workloads.
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Silicon Motion announces its SM2524XT mainstream SSD controller that promises 14 GB/s read speed, up to 2.5 million random IOPS, and sustained random performance.
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Sandisk prepares to launch 520 and 320 SATA SSDs with capacities up to 4TB.
Huawei developed a new die-on-board packaging, which directly mounted NAND dies on the SSD PCB, to get around the sanctions that prevented it from acquiring high-layer-count 3D NAND chips that used American tech. This allo…
Class-action lawsuit filed against HDD suspension assembly makers