In late 2023, storage company Western Digital announced plans to split itself into two companies. One, which would still be called Western Digital, would focus on spinning hard drives, which are no ...

The Optimus family will be segmented into three lines: elite-performing Optimus GX Pro SSDs, gaming-oriented Optimus GX drives, and Optimus SSDs. Since 2004, I have worked on PCMag’s hardware team, ...

The SSDs vs HDDs 2026 debate is heating up as NAND flash prices drop around 30% annually, while new HAMR HDDs reach capacities exceeding 40TB for large-scale data centers. Storage future forecasts ...

Samsung may be preparing to quietly step away from one of the most familiar corners of the consumer storage market. According to multiple industry reports, the company is planning a long-term exit ...

Traditional Hard drives, or HDD in short, are commonly found in older PCs and laptops. Hard drives are mechanical devices with magnetic platters that spin and an arm that reads or writes data. These ...

Solid-state drives (SSDs) have come a long way over the years, evolving from expensive storage devices into affordable upgrades for PCs and consoles. For Black Friday, SSDs from various manufacturers ...

Solid-state drives (SSDs) use flash memory versus the physical storage technologies found in a traditional hard drive (HDD). They have no moving parts and that affords unique properties like faster ...

Liquid cooling will likely be needed for SSDs that provide the performance needed for future AI data center workloads. Solidigm was demonstrating and talking about a prototype liquid cooled SSD at the ...

MicroSD Express cards are the only ones compatible with the Switch 2, and since they started coming out in earnest earlier this year, they really haven't been on sale until now. We tested this PNY ...

Note that a 4TB version of the Crucial P310 NVMe M.2 SSD is also available; however, it is not currently on sale and can only be purchased from third-party sellers. However, we have a few alternative ...