July 5, 2024

Multiple companies offer high-capacity SSDs, but until recently, only two companies offered high-performance 60 TB-class drives with a PCIe interface: Solidigm and Western Digital. As our colleagues from Blocks & Files discovered, Samsung quietly rolled out its BM1743 61.44 TB solid-state drive in mid-June and now envisions 120 TB-class SSDs based on the same platform. Samsung’s BM1743 61.44 TB features a proprietary controller and relies on Samsung’s 7th Generation V-NAND (3D NAND) QLC memory. Moreover, Samsung believes that

If you’re like the rest of the DIY PC enthusiast community, there’s a good chance that you’ve mostly been building AMD Ryzen machines for the last few years. Upcoming Arrow Lake processors could give you a strong reason to swap back to Intel, though, thanks to expected high performance-per-watt and rumored massive jumps in single-threaded throughput. In that case, it’s time to remember how thing are done on the blue side. First and foremost among those

Lian Li Industrial Co., Ltd., established in 1983, is a Taiwanese company specializing in the manufacture of computer cases, power supplies, and accessories. They are one of the oldest players in the PC market and are known for their focus on aluminum-based designs. Lian Li produces a range of products aimed at both consumer and industrial markets, with the company’s offerings including mid-tower and full-tower cases and more compact cases for smaller builds. Amongst consumers

This week, Kioxia introduced its new 3D QLC NAND devices aimed at high-performance, high-capacity drives that could redefine what we typically expect from QLC-based SSDs. The components are 1 Tb and 2 Tb 3D QLC NAND ICs with a 3600 MT/s interface speed that could enable M.2-2230 SSDs with a 4 TB capacity and decent performance. Kioxia’s 1 Tb (128 MB) and 2 Tb (256 TB) 3D QLC NAND devices are made on the company’s