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Western Digital launches PS5-licensed 8TB SSD for $1,000 — PCIe 4.0 drive delivers speeds up to 7,300 MB/s

Western Digital launches an 8TB version of its SN850P SSD officially licensed for the PlayStation 5.

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Razer has unleashed the Kraken V4 – the latest in its line of iconic gaming headsets

Razer has unleashed the Kraken V4 – the latest in its line of iconic gaming headsets

Razer Kraken V4 launches with THX spatial audio and a glorious RGB pattern.

PS5 SSD with 8TB capacity announced — and the price is eye-watering

PS5 SSD with 8TB capacity announced — and the price is eye-watering

Western Digital has expanded its PS5 SSD range with a new 8TD drive — and it costs double the price of the actual console.

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Western Digital reveals a new 8TB PS5 SSD - and it costs about as much as two PS5s

A new 8TB WD Black SN850P SSD is available now, but it doesn't come cheap.

PS5 SSDs don't come any more premium than this – 8TB WD_Black SN850P can store 200 games

WD_Black rips up the copy book with its latest official PlayStation drive for PS5.

These new Pokémon SD cards from Western Digital are absolutely adorable and perfect for Nintendo Switch

Pokémon fans will appreciate these seriously cute officially licensed Nintendo Switch SD cards.

'Without using these inventions, Western Digital would not be able to compete in the market': WD owes $262,000,000 in damages over a HDD patent dispute

You win some, you lose some. Or in this case, you lose quite a lot.

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Fadu's FC5161 SSD Controller Breaks Cover in Western Digital's PCIe Gen5 Enterprise Drives

Fadu's FC5161 SSD Controller Breaks Cover in Western Digital's PCIe Gen5 Enterprise Drives

When Western Digital introduced its Ultrastar DC SN861 SSDs earlier this year, the company did not disclose which controller it used for these drives, which made many observers presume that WD was using an in-house controller. But a recent teardown of the drive shows that is not the case; instead,…

DapuStor and Memblaze Target Global Expansion with State-of-the-Art Enterprise SSDs

DapuStor and Memblaze Target Global Expansion with State-of-the-Art Enterprise SSDs

The growth in the enterprise SSD (eSSD) market has outpaced that of the client SSD market over the last few years. The requirements of AI servers for both training and inference has been the major impetus in this front. In addition to the usual vendors like Samsung, Solidigm, Micron, Kioxia,…

5 'Strong Buy' Stocks That Just Reported Killer Earnings

5 'Strong Buy' Stocks That Just Reported Killer Earnings

As the earnings season nears its close, here are five ‘Strong Buy’-rated stocks that delivered exceptional earnings results.

Western Digital Introduces 4 TB microSDUC, 8 TB SDUC, and 16 TB External SSDs

Western Digital Introduces 4 TB microSDUC, 8 TB SDUC, and 16 TB External SSDs

Western Digital's BiCS8 218-layer 3D NAND is being put to good use in a wide range of client and enterprise platforms, including WD's upcoming Gen 5 client SSDs and 128 TB-class datacenter SSD. On the external storage front, the company demonstrated four different products: for card-based media, 4 TB microSDUC…

Kioxia Details BiCS 8 NAND at FMS 2024: 218 Layers With Superior Scaling

Kioxia Details BiCS 8 NAND at FMS 2024: 218 Layers With Superior Scaling

Kioxia's booth at FMS 2024 was a busy one with multiple technology demonstrations keeping visitors occupied. A walk-through of the BiCS 8 manufacturing process was the first to grab my attention. Kioxia and Western Digital announced the sampling of BiCS 8 in March 2023. We had touched briefly upon its…

WD My Passport 6TB portable HDD review

WD My Passport 6TB portable HDD review

Portable SSDs have become the norm; however, there is still a place for large-capacity HDDs. The WD My Passport 6TB is a perfect example. It might not have the blistering speeds of its SSD rivals, but when it comes to capacity, no SSD at this price can match it.

Are Wall Street Analysts Predicting Western Digital Stock Will Climb or Sink?

Are Wall Street Analysts Predicting Western Digital Stock Will Climb or Sink?

Western Digital has outperformed the broader market over the past year, and Wall Street analysts remain optimistic about the stock's prospects.

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SanDisk announces the world’s first 8TB SD card – the biggest memory card we’ve ever seen

Western Digital sets a new benchmark for data storage with two huge memory cards: an 8TB SD card and a 4TB microSD card.

Western Digital Previews M.2 2280 PCIe 5.0 x4 NVMe Client SSDs: 15GBps at Under 7 Watts

Western Digital's FMS 2024 demonstrations included a preview of their upcoming PCIe 5.0 x4 M.2 2280 NVMe SSDs for mobile workstations and consumer desktops. The Gen 5 client SSD market has been dominated by solutions based on Phison's E26 controller. The first generation products launched with slower NAND flash, while…

Western Digital Teases 128 TB Enterprise SSD: BiCS8 3D QLC for AI Workloads

A week after Western Digital confirmed that it had begun sampling of its 64 TB SSDs for datacenters, the company has teased its next-generation product, a 128 TB solid-state drive at FMS 2024. For now, all we know about Western Digital's 128 TB SSD is that it uses the company's…

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WD announces enterprise 128TB SSD, 8TB SD cards, and a 16TB external SSD at FMS 2024

WD announced a raft of interesting new storage solutions at the FMS 2024, including an enterprise SSD with 128TB of high-capacity BiCS8 QLC flash, new SD cards in 8TB capacities, and a 16TB external SSD for consumers.

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Western Digital: We Are Sampling 32TB SMR Hard Drives

In an unexpected announcement during their quarterly earnings call this week, Western Digital revealed that it has begun sampling an upcoming 32TB hard drive. The nearline HDD is aimed at hyperscalers, and relies on a combination of Westen Digital's EAMR technology, as well as shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology to…

Western Digital teams with storage startup to deliver Apple-inspired, Mac-proof storage solution that can scale to 560TB — Orico Data Matrix Ultra set to compete with ThunderBay Flex 8

Data Matrix Ultra is an Apple inspired storage solution that combines SSDs with Western Digital HDDs.

Western Digital's Quarterly Earnings Preview: What You Need to Know

Western Digital is all set to announce fiscal fourth-quarter results this month, and analysts are projecting a notable triple-digit earnings growth.

Western Digital Adds 8TB Model to Popular High-End SN850X SSD Drive Family

Western Digital has quietly introduced an 8 TB version of its high-end SN850X SSD, doubling the top capacity of the well-regarded drive family. The new drive offers performance on par with other members of the range, but with twice as much capacity as the previous top-end model – and with…

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SanDisk's ultra-rugged 6TB external hard drive is rain, dust, and crush resistant with FAST transfer performance

The G-DRIVE ArmorATD HDD is a rugged HDD that is not only rain and dust-resistant but also crush-resistant. Our review.

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Western Digital's new 6TB external hard drive is fantastic, but one of its two variants is even better than the other

Western Digital My Passport Ultra HDD now has a larger 6TB capacity and comes with security software. Our review.

Samsung Joins The 60 TB SSD Club, Looking Forward To 120 TB Drives

Multiple companies offer high-capacity SSDs, but until recently, only one company offered high-performance 60 TB-class drives with a PCIe interface: Solidigm. 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…

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