Sony freezes memory card orders in Japan amid growing storage crisis — the company attributes the cause to ‘shortage of semiconductors’

Sony Japan has announced that it will no longer accept orders for almost its entire lineup of CFexpress and SD memory cards as of March 27.

Exceptional fake SSD clone of Samsung 990 Pro is almost impossible to spot — near-identical performance blurs the line between real and fake as AI crunch drives knock-off market

Japanese news outlet Akiba PC Hotline! examines a fake Samsung 990 Pro SSD that’s starting to show up in the Japanese market.

Seagate FireCuda 530R 2TB SSD Review: A stealthy workstation powerhouse

The Seagate FireCuda 530R is a specialized workstation SSD that prioritizes reliability and performance consistency. With high write endurance and bundled data recovery services, it provides extra peace of mind.

Another major Japanese electronics firm exits the Blu-ray market — Elecom publishes notice of termination of all external drives

Japanese PC peripherals and accessories stalwart Elecom has announced that it is pulling out of the Blu-ray drive market.

Kioxia announces new Super High IOPS SSD that helps accelerate AI workloads on Nvidia GPUs — 25.6TB drive provides more GPU-accessible memory for faster data access

Kioxia has developed a new AI SSD that is designed to provide a secondary cache for Nvidia AI GPUs. The new drive comes with the manufacturer’s XL-Flash that is SLC based and performs at over 10 million IOPS.

16TB M.2 SSD hits retail if you’re ready to drop $16,000 for the ultimate storage upgrade — price tag explodes 4X in just four months

The Exascend PE4 16TB, one of the first 16TB M.2 SSDs, has gone up for purchase on Amazon for a jaw-dropping $15,935.

Seagate FireCuda X1070 2TB SSD review: Entry-level hardware meets premium support

The Seagate FireCuda X1070 is a budget-minded SSD done mostly right. It performs well enough and has excellent support, but initial pricing is high. A Gen 4 SSD that you can just throw into any system and get the job done….

Enthusiast reverse engineers world’s smallest HDD to access data with help from an old Nokia N91 and OpenClaw — open source USB bridge unlocks 0.85-inch mechanical Toshiba drive from 2004

Maker Will Whang designed the MK4001MTD USB Bridge to facilitate the use of the world’s smallest (0.85-inch) mechanical hard drives, originally released by Toshiba in 2004.