When it comes to SSDs, I can’t help but wonder whether the latest price spike is simply a temporary shock driven by AI demand, or whether it was inevitable all along. For a while, we had it incredibly good. High-performance, DRAM-equipped SSDs with generous capacities and five-year warranties were selling at prices that would seem …

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I’d like to say change is coming to the SSD market, but the reality is that it’s already here. Looking back, it’s a bit amusing because long before the current NAND and DRAM shortages, I wondered whether SSD performance would eventually plateau with PCIe Gen4. What I didn’t anticipate, and neither did anyone else, was …

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Consumer-focused DRAM saw a major spike in prices in Q2 vs Q1, with DDR4 memory floating at 50% and LPDDR around 80% due to persistent shortages. Consumer DRAM Prices Jumped Over 50% In Q2 vs Q1, DDR4 Now Averages 50%, While LPDDR Up To 89% Expensive DRAM makers are only focused on making profits rather than thinking about the widespread impact their prioritizations have on the consumer segment. With AI being on top of the list, general-purpose DRAM, which includes DDR and LPDDR memory, has faced the brunt of the widespread shortages, leading to massive price hikes. In the latest […]

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GMKtec is finally lifting the curtains off its EVO-X3 Workstation PC, which houses the AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 and 128 GB memory. EVO-X3 Is Going To Be A Powerful Workstation PC For Local AI As GMKtec Crams 128 GB Memory & Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 In A PS4-Sized Chassis Last year, we tested the newly launched GMKtec EVO-X2 Mini PC. The system features the AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 395, and is a strong competitor to the NVIDIA DGX Spark, featuring a much lower price point. The company is now launching a follow-up to this PC, the EVO-X3. The GMKtec […]

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Many might not know the term ‘Olympico’ but it speaks to a corner kick which scores a goal without any other player touching the ball in football. It is incredibly rare.  It is considered the impossible goal. As coincidence may have it, it’s name comes from Argentine player Cesareo Onzari who scored the first one …

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If you are a fan of The SSD review, you may remember a post we made and subsequent review of a very innovative storage design by Longsys at CES this past January.  It was called the mSSD and was a concept back then, a concept by which we were fortunate to provide full report on …

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One of the easiest mistakes to make when building or upgrading a PC is assuming that every M.2 slot on a motherboard is basically the same. After all, they all look nearly identical and take the same "gum stick-shaped" drives. Motherboard marketing pages love to list "4 x M.2" as though that number alone tells the whole story, but in practice, these slots can behave very differently. You could have a perfectly healthy, high-end Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) solid-state drive (SSD) that performs well below expectations simply because it was installed in the wrong slot. If your shiny new PCI-Express […]

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With the price of memory these days, it can only be expected that we will see more value-driven options in both client and consumer SSD solutions, such as pre-configured PCs and laptops. Right in line with this, KIOXIA has introduced its first Gen4 QLC NAND equipped SSD known as the EG7. The KIOXIA EG7 Series …

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The WD_Black SN7100 4TB NVMe SSD is $546 on Amazon with Gen4 speeds and TLC NAND at roughly $137/TB.

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