Researcher builds bizarre 128-byte USB drive the size of a dinner plate using ancient pre-semiconductor magnetic core memory technology — data disappears once it is read, requiring special handling

A computing enthusiast has assembled one of the most bizarre low-capacity USB drives we have ever seen.

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Open source IDE-ATAPI drive emulator launches for vintage computers — drop-in 3.5-inch bay solution can save oodles of optical and HDD images to a microSD

PicoIDE is touted as ‘an open source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator for vintage computers.’

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Sandisk crushes wallets with up to 2.8X SSD price hikes as NAND shortage strangles the market — WD Black SN8100 8TB skyrockets past $2,500, more than a high-end gaming PC

Sandisk has significantly increased prices on SSDs sold through its online store, with some models seeing increases of up to xx.
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Biwin Black Opal NV7400 2TB SSD Review: Another Arrow in Biwin’s Quiver

The Biwin Black Opal NV7400 is a solid performer with reasonable power efficiency and no real downsides.

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TeamGroup NV5000 2TB SSD Review: A Blast from the Past

The TeamGroup NV5000 is a storage device first and an SSD second. It fulfills the function that older SSDs did and without using any truly new hardware.
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Micron starts building new 3D NAND fab in Singapore – Fab 10B promises to more than double the company’s local flash production capacity

Micron’s Fab 10B, now under construction in Singapore, promises to more than double the company’s 3D NAND output from the region when it is fully operational in about 10 years.
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SSD price tracking 2026: Lowest price on every M.2 SSD from Samsung, Western Digital, Crucial, and more — here are the best deals during the AI-driven pricing crisis

Updated daily, this list shows the lowest US prices on major SSD models.

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SSDs now cost 16x more than HDDs due to AI supply chain crisis — hybrid SSD + HDD datacenter deployments are now significantly cheaper to deploy than SSD-only equivalents

A new report reveals that enterprise SSDs now cost a whopping 16x more than hard drives.

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After RAM, storage could be next to break your budget

Reports suggest NAND production cuts by Samsung and SK Hynix could lead to higher SSD prices as storage supply tightens.
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Kioxia exec says the AI boom means the era of the cheap 1TB SSD is over —company’s NAND supply is sold out for this year and likely through 2027

Kioxia’s Memory Business Director warns that the global NAND flash shortage means affordable SSDs are gone for good.
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