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Crucial’s X6 lineup of durable USB-C SSDs now has a whopping 4TB model

Crucial’s range of midrange, portable USB-C SSDs in the X6 lineup has a couple of new configurations starting today: one for big spenders who need a lot of storage, and another for people on a budget. On top of its 1TB and 2TB models, there’s now a 4TB SSD you can buy for $489.95. It’s… Read more

Kioxia and Western Digital Build New 162-layer NAND Flash Memory

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Flash partners Kioxia and Western Digital revealed this week a brand new generation of 3D NAND flash memory that promises to be much faster and far denser than anything they have produced before. BiCS6 features 162 layers and 70% more bits per wafer than the preceding BiCS5 from a few… Read more

Western Digital Launches WD Green SN350 M.2 SSD

Home News WD Green SN350 (Image credit: Western Digital) Western Digital has expanded its formidable SSD portfolio with the new line of WD Green SN350 SSDs. The drives, which adhere to the M.2 2280 form factor, will be available with capacities ranging from 240GB to 960GB. The SN350 is an entry-level SSD that slots perfectly… Read more

WD Black SN850 1 TB SSD Review – The Fastest SSD

Introduction Western Digital (or simply WD) is the world’s largest manufacturer of storage solutions, mostly known for their wide range of hard disk offerings. With their acquisition of SanDisk in 2016, WD became one of the largest manufacturers for flash storage, too. Today, we’re reviewing the WD Black SN850 SSD, which is a high-end M.2… Read more

Reports Of PC HDDs’ Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated: 139M Shipped in 2020

Home News (Image credit: Seagate) In a world where you cannot cram a hard drive into a modern thin-and-light laptop and a cheap high-capacity 2.5-inch SSD can replace an HDD in a desktop, you would expect consumer hard disk drives to go extinct. Yet, while their unit sales are dropping, sales are still strong at… Read more

Free Open Source GPU Under Development for RISC-V

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) The days of open-source GPUs may soon be upon us. The RISC-V architecture enables small companies to develop purpose-built processors and microcontrollers without paying a royalty. There are numerous free and commercial IP building blocks for RISC-V-based system-on-chips (SoCs), but the portfolio lacks a graphics option. This will change in a… Read more

KW02 / 2021: Our articles from the last week

This week, too, numerous exciting articles went online at Hardwareluxx.de. We not only subjected the MSI MPG Sekira 30 R to a detailed practical test , but also the ZOTAC Gaming GeForce RTX 3070 AMP Holo, the AVerMedia GC 311 Live Gamer Mini, the HP P 700 or the WD_Black SN 850 in the RAID… Read more

heise + | Seven SSDs with PCIe 3.0 and 4.0 in the test

Seven SSDs with PCIe 3.0 and 4.0 in the test Flash memory SSD controller Similarities Measurement results One-to-one meetings Conclusion Test table Article in c’t 3 / 2021 read At the beginning of the PCIe 4.0 era there were SSDs with Phison controllers and Toshiba Flash: They achieved a good 5 GB / s for… Read more

Chasing records with the WD_Black SN850 in RAID: To the limits of PCIe4

Page 1: Record hunt with the WD_Black SN 850 in RAID: To the limits from PCIe4 At Hardwareluxx we like to keep an eye out for unusual and particularly powerful hardware that goes to the limits of current standards – or beyond. The Western Digital WD_Black SN 850 was able to convince us in the… Read more

Western Digital doubles the storage in its portable SSDs to 4TB

Western Digital is doubling the maximum storage size of several of its portable SSDs to 4TB. Previously, Western Digital’s SSD lineup maxed out at 2TB. The 4TB storage configuration will be available under Western Digital’s My Passport and WD_Black black brands, along with its subsidiary SanDisk’s Extreme series. All of the products will also include… Read more

CES 2021: Western Digital adds new 4TB models to its external SSD portfolio

Western Digital is a name that will be familiar to almost everyone with an interest in the PC hardware sector, and the company also owns SanDisk which it acquired back in 2016. Today, Western Digital has announced new 4TB models which have been added to four of the company’s existing external SSD ranges. This means… Read more

Western Digital is expanding its portfolio of portable SSDs

The manufacturer Western Digital has now expanded its portfolio with portable SSDs with a storage capacity of up to 4 TB . In addition to the SanDisk and WD brands, this also applies to the company’s WD_BLACK range. According to WD, the new drives are suitable for gamers as well as for content creators or… Read more

Seasonic AURA MODDED Build (Part 4)

In the final instalment of the Seasonic Aura custom build project, we take a look at how to make custom power cables, mod the Fractal Define 7 XL front panel cables and put the finishing touches on the system by installing all the wiring. We also build the custom loop and add a few final modifications… Read more

KitGuru Advent Calendar Day 20: Win a Corsair peripheral bundle!

Matthew Wilson 52 mins ago Competitions, Featured Announcement For Day 20 of the KitGuru Advent Calendar 2020, we’re teaming up with CORSAIR to give away an excellent peripheral bundle! The bundle includes a K100 Optical-mechanical keyboard, a Dark Core Pro SE mouse, an MM350 Extended mouse pad and a Virtuoso SE headset! Corsair makes some… Read more

Reader test: These are the testers of the WD Red in a QNAP NAS!

At the end of November, in cooperation with Western Digital and QNAP, we called on our readers and community members to apply for our latest reader test. We were looking for two testers who wanted to test two WD REDs with 4 TB storage space each in a brand new NAS from QNAP at home… Read more