eMMC vs. SSD storage: What was the difference, and does it matter now?

Storage in a laptop is a big deal. How did eMMC storage compare to an SSD? Here's why it mattered back then but has mostly ...

Keep up to date with the PC memory and SSD supply crisis as we track prices and the latest news

Let's kick things off with that most generic of memory brands, Crucial. Their standard and unadorned 32 GB DDR5 kit is ...
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Are SSD Prices About To Plummet? What You Need To Know Before Buying

Pricing on solid state drive (SSD) storage is on track to undergo a "noticeable and cyclical downward correction" very soon, according to a couple of analysts at TrendForce, a market research firm. In ...
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Best SSD for Photo Editing and Graphic Design

Overview Modern SSDs deliver lightning-fast read/write speeds to handle heavy RAW files, layered designs, and complex visual ...

Flash storage has doubled in price over the last few months, says Phison: 'All the capacity is sold out'

In Phison's earnings call, the CEO explains that "every NAND manufacturer" has said they're "sold out" for 2026: "all the ...
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Western Digital is planning to split its SSD memory and hard drive operations into two new businesses

SSDs AI cloud companies have guzzled up so much HDD storage that they might be coming for our SSDs next SSDs SK Hynix's 'world first' 321-layer QLC flash memory chips, boasting 100% faster transfer ...

Silicon Power XPower XS90 SSD Brings Blistering 14.3GB/s Speeds To Gaming PCs

We've seen a handful of new SSDs push the envelope lately, and Silicon Power's new XPower XS90 Gen 5 SSD joins the bunch with ...

Kingston FURY Adds Its Largest Capacity Client PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD

Kingston FURY, the high-performance division of Kingston Digital, Inc., the flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., a world leader in memory products and technology solutions, ...