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.

Microscopes can clearly see the video on the surface of a CED ‘LaserDisc,’ discovers Techtuber — a 12-inch vinyl-like disc that stores SD analog video

Images representing the contents can clearly be seen when studying the surface of a CED ‘LaserDisc’ under a microscope.

How to protect yourself from bad external SSDs during the PC hardware apocalypse – newer drives will definitely cost more, and some may offer up shockingly poor performance

If you’re shopping for a new external SSD, you might want to buy a drive soon, and something that was released before the AI demand seemingly gobbled up all the good flash.

Minisforum’s new flagship NAS comes with OpenClaw pre-installed — Strix Halo-powered N5 Max can run a local AI LLM

Minisforum has announced it is readying a new NAS that comes with OpenClaw pre-installed. The NAS will be powered by AMD’s flagship Ryzen AI Max+ 395 to help accelerate AI workloads that users program OpenClaw to execute. …

Phison CEO says that NAND prices hiked by around 50% overnight, highlighting severe shortage in the industry — warns ‘our current concern is that both money and inventory are insufficient’

SSD controller manufacturer Phison said that NAND chip prices increased by around 50% overnight, and that it’s increasing its inventory to ensure that it will have sufficient supply as it pivots towards enterprise customer…

Grab this speedy 4TB Crucial P310 SSD, the cheapest on sale right now, for just £299.99 — nearly £90 price drop is as good as it gets for high-capacity PC storage as the AI crunch continues to bite

Another big sale day means you can grab a 4TB Crucial P310 2280 NVMe SSD with PCIe 4.0 speeds for just £299.99, nearly £90 less than it cost a few weeks ago, and pushing back a little against the AI price hikes.