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Kingston's NV2 NVMe SSD has been a common choice for budget-conscious consumers, delivering up to 4TB of storage and decent performance for an affordable price. Kingston recently unveiled its successor, the NV3, touting several upgrades over its predecessor. Kingston plans to launch 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB NV3 models initially, with …

Synology is back with a new 5-bay DiskStation for 2022. The new Synology DiskStation DS1522+ launches this month, providing a compact solution for all-in-one storage to help you store, protect and share data.  The DS1522+ integrates well as the primary storage solution for smaller setups or as an edge node …

Today is a big day for Synology, with the company announcing availability of the HD6500. This is the first product in the HD series, offering 60 bays for super-sized storage needs, and support for up to 960TB per chassis.  The Synology HD6500 is a 4U 60-bay system for petabyte-level storage, …

Currently, the only storage requirement to install Windows 11 is 64GB of free space. There's no mention regarding the type of storage device, allowing users to install on an HDD or an SSD. However, according to a new report, Microsoft may soon limit Windows 11 installations to SSDs. According to …

Nvidia's plans to buy ARM may not have gone well, but that doesn't mean there aren't other companies worth acquiring. With the ARM deal now dead, Nvidia has turned its attention to other acquisitions, starting with Excelero, an HPC storage specialist company based in Tel-Aviv. With the acquisition of Excelero, Nvidia …

One of the most impressive aspects of both the PS5 and Xbox Series X are their SSDs which allow for extremely fast loading speeds, and bigger and more seamless open worlds – to name a few. This does not come cheap however – especially for the Xbox consoles. It has …

Nobody was expecting Microsoft to announce Windows 11 this year. In fact, up to the reveal, we had been under the assumption that Windows 10 still had a long life ahead of it. As we get closer to the launch, we're learning more about the improvements Windows 11 brings, including …

While there exists many competing online cloud storage solutions, one of the most consumer friendly was Google’s which offered free unlimited photo and video storage with only a few caveats. It would seem this is no longer the case however, as come June 2021, all free users will be limited …

SK Hynix is already huge in the NAND flash and storage business but it is about to get bigger. Today. the company announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Intel's NAND memory and storage business for $9 billion.

The first previews of Xbox Series X have started to come out, and it seems that besides being quiet and fast, you won't have the whole 1TB of storage available to use. Apparently, 20% of the storage is reserved for the console's operating system, allowing you to only use around …

Samsung's new eUFS 3.1 storage will produce three times write performance in mobile devices compared to current eUFS 3.0.

Patriot’s gaming brand Viper has announced it will showcase a new M.2 PCIe external SSD during the gaming festival at PAX East 2020. The new device will be ideally suited to offering extra storage to console gamers with its high-speed data transfer rates and compact form factor. The PAX East …

Kingston Technology has announced a new range of NVMe SSDs for data centre solutions. The Data Centre DC1000B M.2 NVMe is optimised for server boot applications and equipped with power-loss protection (PLP). The new Data Centre DC1000B range from Kingston is a high-performance M.2 (2280) NVMe PCIe SSD utilising the …

Samsung is back in the labs, this time producing the industry’s first 512GB embedded Universal Flash Storage (eUFS). According to the firm, this new chip boasts incredible speed and is being developed for “next generation” smartphones, which could include the tentatively titled Samsung Galaxy S9. While consumers won’t care too …

Earlier this year, we learned that at least one early Nintendo Switch game would take up more space than the console’s on-board storage could provide. At first, this seemed like a fringe case but as we head towards the end of 2017, there are plenty of additional third-party games taking …

The electric car and battery experts over at Tesla, have promised to detail a new generation of consumer power storage combined with solar power later today. However, to whet our appetites a little, it's come out early with details of a second generation Powerpack. Able to store twice as much …

Since the original MegaUpload was shut down by authorities in 2012 and its many assets seized, original founder Kim Dotcom has been trying to develop a new file locker which cannot fall foul to old pitfalls. He's not quite managed it yet, but MegaUpload 2.0 might make it a reality, …

How will the world change as motherboard vendors move from 1Gb Ethernet ports to 2.5Gb or even 5Gb as standard? Can the major hard drive manufacturers stay ahead of the SSD curve simply by launching 20TB units for the 3.5″ form factor? Will Apple's imminent launch of a Thunderbolt 3 …

Western Digital is a company that has been slower than most to adopt solid state technology, and though it does have some options for the flash memory storage-tech, it does still put a lot into its traditional hard drive business. That's no different at this year's CeBIT show, but the …

Seagate has just announced what it says is the ‘world's fastest' SSD, capable of 10Gbps throughput. Seagate's new drive is compliant with the Open Compute Project specification and makes use of the NVMe protocol, allowing it to achieve these massive speeds. According to Seagate, this SSD is ‘production ready' so …

The iKlips from Adam Elements may look like a lowly USB flash drive, but its main purpose it as removable storage for iOS devices. On one end is a USB 3 connector, while at the other, a Lighting connector that plugs into an iPhone and iPad, supplementing any internal storage …

In recent years, the prices of SSDs have come down significantly and we are now at a point where companies can launch affordable SSDs with speeds that will dwarf a traditional hard drive. This week, Crucial unveiled its new BX200 drives, bringing solid performance at a price point that should …

It seems that Western Digital is in advanced talks with SanDisk regarding an acquisition. The two storage device makers could reach a deal pretty soon as well, with sources familiar with the matter claiming that everything could be official by the end of the week. Right now, Western Digital is said …

Remember back in January 2012 when MegaUpload was shut down and its servers were seized? The people who were paying customers of the site didn't receive any compensation for that loss and despite many legal efforts by different individuals, nobody has been able to get their files back. It was …

Sony has gone ahead and crippled the storage capabilities of one of its budget smartphones, the Xperia M4 Aqua, as owners of the 8GB device can only actually access 1.26GB of it. This seems to be largely down to the inclusion of Android 5.0 Lollipop, which apparently takes up 4GB of …

E3 is coming up in just less than two weeks so now is the time for retailers to accidentally leak upcoming reveals, whether they be from Sony, Microsoft or other game developers. If you have one of the new consoles currently and own more than five games, then you have …

Samsung Electronics has introduced a new NAND flash device that could enable low-cost smartphones and tablets with up to 128GB of storage space. The new eMMC memory chip is based on triple-level cell (TLC) NAND flash technology and is cheaper to make than multi-level cell (MLC) solutions of similar capacity. …

Although the discerning media user likely already has a home server with wireless connectivity and remote access this kind of set up is not always ideal. In-fact, all it takes is for you to lose access to a decent internet connection and suddenly you are media free – which for some …

MSI has managed to become the world's first motherboard maker to fully support NVM Express storage on all motherboards sporting the Intel 9 series chipset, including X99, Z97 and H97. BIOS updates are now available for users to download via the MSI website. For those who don't know, NVM Express …

PMC-Sierra has announced that it has joined the OpenPower foundation, which develops “open-source” servers based on next-generation IBM Power processors and Power architecture. PMC-Sierra will bring a host of innovative controllers for storage solutions with Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and NVM Express (NVMe) interfaces to the new platform. Participation in …