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KitGuru Advent Calendar Day 19: Win a WD_Black P50 1TB portable NVMe SSD!

Home / Tech News / Competitions / KitGuru Advent Calendar Day 19: Win a WD_Black P50 1TB portable NVMe SSD! Matthew Wilson 53 mins ago Competitions, Featured Announcement For Day 19 of the KitGuru Advent Calendar 2020, we’re teaming up with Western Digital to give away THREE WD_Black P50 1TB NVMe SSDs! These are portable… Read more

heise + | Network storage: four NAS empty housings for self-assembly in the test

Network storage: four NAS empty housings for self-assembly in the test Practical aspects Connections Performance Individual meetings Conclusion Test table Article in c’t 1 / 2021 read The data storage in the LAN is not only useful for centrally stored files and PC backups: it can also act as a media server for music and… Read more

SSD Prices Set to Drop in Q1 Due to Oversupply of 3D NAND

Home News (Image credit: Micron) As leading makers increase their 3D NAND bit output, prices of flash memory drop due to oversupply. This leads to sinking prices for solid-state drives as other types of NAND-based storage devices. Analysts from TrendForce predict that next quarter prices of client and server SSDs will drop by another 10% to 15%… Read more

ASUS ZenBook Flip S test – Laptop with Intel Tiger Lake and OLED screen

In early September, ASUS unveiled new ZenBook laptop models that will feature processors 11 Intel Tiger Lake generation. Attention was also focused on screens, thanks to which we will get more models with OLED matrices or IPS panels with a 3: 2 aspect ratio. One of the most interesting new products is ASUS ZenBook Flip… Read more

TechStage | PlayStation 5: the best accessories

Testing Tests overview Smartphone Realme 7 Pro in the test: OLED display and 65 – Watt loading Huawei Mate 35 Pro in the test: Great, but without Google Samsung Galaxy M 21 Test: Solid cross-country skier at a budget price Oneplus 8T: battery full in 45 minutes and 120 – Hz display Samsung Galaxy Fold… Read more

Review Gold Note DS 10 and PA 10: warm-blooded and well-working couple from Tuscany

The Italian audio company Gold Note designs and builds its products in Florence, the capital of the Tuscany region. The company claims to be influenced by the culture and (art) history of this region on the one hand, but at the same time incorporates modern and digital insights and technology into its products. In our… Read more

Playstation 5: Additional SSDs cannot be used at the start

Sony delivers the Playstation 5 with 695 GByte NAND flash memory, of which 695 Use GByte for games and files such as screenshots. Since many current console titles 100 occupy GByte and more, the manufacturer is promoting the expandability via an additional SSD: A slot for a standard M.2 card is located under the right… Read more

Microsoft and Western Digital create the DNA Data Storage Alliance

Storing information in DNA is possible, but quite complicated and slow. Various companies have been researching this for years – and to drive this development forward, they have now founded the DNA Data Storage Alliance. Continue Way to application Microsoft and Western Digital are probably the most prominent co-founders, with Twist Bioscience and Illumina as… Read more

New X-NAND Tech Detailed: SLC Speed at QLC Capacity and Pricing

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) During the three-day virtual Flash Memory Summit for 2020, CEO and founder of NEO Semiconductor, Andy Hsu, gave a detailed presentation covering the company’s new X-NAND flash architecture that promises to combine the speed of SLC flash with the density and low pricing of QLC flash. NEO Semiconductor was founded… Read more

Xbox Series X in teardown: exchangeable standard SSD and complex cooler

Tool manufacturer iFixit dismantled Microsoft’s Xbox Series X game console and exposed the innards. The teardown makes it clear that the Xbox Series X can be taken apart quite easily thanks to the use of standard screws without glue. In the bottom sits a 130 mm large axial fan, which pushes fresh air through the… Read more

After criticism of “5400 RPM Class”: Western Digital brings new WD Red Plus HDDs

Western Digital draws conclusions from the criticism of the information on the rotation speed of its own hard drives: The models with 8, 10, 12 and 14 TByte capacity from the WD Red Plus series are available in stores with new model numbers. The new editions physically represent the same hard disks, but report to… Read more

Western Digital Black SN850 1TB NVMe SSD test by Tweaktown: Samsung dethroned?

The new ssd king? Tweaktown has the new WD Black SN 850 Questioned 1TB NVMe SSD and was positively surprised. Not so long ago, the testers of this website crowned the Samsung 980 Pro 1TB to SSD King, but it looks like Samsung has a formidable opponent. The WD Black SN 850 is available in… Read more

Western Digital introduces first SSD for zoned storage

Western Digital has sent the first test samples of its new SSD Ultrastar DC ZN 540. Unlike practically all other common SSDs, this SSD cannot simply be used as a replacement for a hard disk: It works with flash zones, so-called Zoned Namespaces (CNS). In principle, these SSDs are accessed like the host-managed version of… Read more

Western Digital Gets Into Industrial-Grade M.2 SSDs With the IX SN530

Home News (Image credit: Western Digital) Historically, industrial-grade SSDs have had to offer reliability, endurance and extended temperatures support. Today, they also need to feature high capacity, plus high performance. To that end, a number of the best SSD makers started to offer industrial-class drives in M.2 form-factors in recent years. Western Digital wasn’t one… Read more

Micron Now Shipping 176-Layer 3D TLC NAND Flash

Home News While we were just getting used to 96-Layer flash becoming commonplace and over 100-Layer flash from Samsung and SK hynix is just starting to enter the market, Micron announced its next-generation 176-layer replacement gate flash is now in volume production and shipping, setting a new high for layer counts. (Image credit: Micron) Micron’s… Read more