SK hynix denies playing hardball with Trump admin over 3D NAND fab
SK hynix denies playing hardball with Trump admin over 3D NAND fab

SK hynix reportedly conditions building new Solidigm 3D NAND fab in the U.S. to equipment exports to the Solidigm fab in Dalian, China.

SK hynix to place custom tiny CPU cores in its SSD controllers to ease Arm load as drive speeds rocket

SK hynix detailed H-TPU, tiny in-house cores that offload routine I/O from the Arm CPUs in its next enterprise SSD controllers.

Sandisk NAS 800 1.92TB SSD Review: Endurance at a premium
Sandisk NAS 800 1.92TB SSD Review: Endurance at a premium

The Sandisk NAS 800 is a high-end PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD built for NAS workloads, with high endurance, strong sustained write performance, and low 4KB random latency. It’s mainly held back by its high price.

Kioxia unveils E1.L SSDs for hyperscalers with up to 122.88TB capacity
Kioxia unveils E1.L SSDs for hyperscalers with up to 122.88TB capacity

Kioxia’s LD4-series SSDs can store up to 122.88TB of data in a compact form-factor, but its performance remains a mystery.

Elevate your Steam Deck and ROG Ally’s SSD storage for just $0.13 per GB
Elevate your Steam Deck and ROG Ally’s SSD storage for just $0.13 per GB

The WD Black SN770M 2TB SSD is currently on sale for $259.99, just 8% over the PCIe 4.0’s launch price before the storage shortage.

Micron lawsuit claims Chinese memory maker YMTC poached its engineers, then sued it using its own stolen tech

Micron files a lawsuit against Yangtze Memory, claims that some of the patents which YMTC uses against Micron in various courts were granted to former YMTC engineers who took crucial know-how from Micron and took it to YMTC.

Sandisk Optimus GX Pro 850P 2TB SSD review: A PS5 SSD you recognize at a price you don’t
Sandisk Optimus GX Pro 850P 2TB SSD review: A PS5 SSD you recognize at a price you don’t

The Sandisk Optimus GX Pro 850P is a WD Black SN850P by another name. It’s a great PS5 SSD with good performance in a mature package, but with a stiff premium.

New DapuStor SSD pairs high-capacity QLC with a permanent pSLC region
New DapuStor SSD pairs high-capacity QLC with a permanent pSLC region

DapuStor’s dual-mode J5060 QLC SSD runs part of its NAND as pSLC, trading 4TB of a 30.72TB drive for 800GB of fast flash.

New DapuStor SSD pairs high-capacity QLC with a permanent pSLC region — trades 6% to 20% of its QLC capacity for more than 7x faster random writes
New DapuStor SSD pairs high-capacity QLC with a permanent pSLC region — trades 6% to 20% of its QLC capacity for more than 7x faster random writes

DapuStor’s dual-mode J5060 QLC SSD runs part of its NAND as pSLC, trading 4TB of a 30.72TB drive for 800GB of fast flash.

iPhone 18 Pro Max storage can drop lower than a hard drive at 1.1 MB/s during heavy writes — QLC NAND offers higher capacity but reportedly suffers 38% drop compared to TLC-based Pro
iPhone 18 Pro Max storage can drop lower than a hard drive at 1.1 MB/s during heavy writes — QLC NAND offers higher capacity but reportedly suffers 38% drop compared to TLC-based Pro

Apple’s use of QLC NAND allows the iPhone 18 Pro Max to offer higher storage capacity, but Homolab’s testing highlights the potential performance trade-off under sustained writes.