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Kliff soars on a dragon over the lands of Crimson Desert.
Crimson Desert's updated system requirements look very promising for any PC gamer, and for what must be a first-ever move, the devs have namechecked the ROG Xbox Ally handheld

By Nick Evanson Published

News You're looking at 60 fps at 4K, maxed out, on hardware that isn't unobtanium level for once.

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Phison logo displayed on a phone screen with a binary code reflected on it, a laptop keyboard, a memory card, an adaper and cables are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on January 30, 2023.
Phison CEO says 'both money and inventory are insufficient' as NAND prices continue to climb at an astronomical rate

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News More bad news for us mere mortals.

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Apple MacBook Air M5
Apple somehow just doubled the amount of storage in the new MacBook Air M5 base model to 512 GB despite the memory crisis

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Though the base price has gone up $100.

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A Samsung 9100 Pro SSD in both 2 TB and 4 TB sizes.
Samsung is prepping PCIe 6.0 SSDs already but don't expect to get your hands on them without screw-you AI datacentre money

By Jacob Fox Published

News 256 TB—yes, terabytes—with double that planned for next year.

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Parts of Microsoft's Project Silica, an experimental glass-based data storage solution.
Microsoft says its glass-based storage project now works with 'the same material found in kitchen cookware and oven doors' and can hold data for 10,000 years

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Served on a platter.

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The SK Hynix Semiconductor Inc. logo is displayed at the company's plant during a media tour organized by Korea Industrial Complex Corp. (KICOX) in Cheongju, South Korea, on Friday, Nov. 23, 2012. KICOX, which develops and manages industrial complexes and support for resident enterprises as a public company under South Korea's Ministry of Knowledge Economy, held a media tour to the plant
SK Hynix's unique way of chopping cells in two is a big step in making PLC flash memory chips viable and could offer a solution to ballooning SSD prices

By Nick Evanson Published

News Though we're still some way off from seeing the light at the end of the AI-induced tunnel.

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Two external SSDs on a green background with the PC Gamer recommended badge in the top right corner
Best external SSDs for gaming in 2026: These are the portable drives I'd use for backups, game libraries, and travel storage

By Jacob Fox Last updated

SSDs to go Bag one of the best USB Type-C SSDs for game storage on a PC or console.

SSDs to go
WD_Black SN7100 and BiWin NV7400 SSDs on an orange background
Best SSD for gaming in 2026: the fastest and the best value solid state drives to perk up your PC

By Dave James Last updated

Speedy storage Give your gaming PC a serious speed boost with the best SSD for gaming.

Speedy storage
A promotional image for Samsung's 12 nm-class DDR5-DRAM production, showing multiple DRAM modules on a UDIMM circuit board.
Explainer: The RAMpocalypse is making memory, SSDs, and even GPUs much more expensive, and it's all down to AI

By Jacob Fox Last updated

Memory blues Here's all we know about skyrocketing memory prices and what's causing it.

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Memory blues
The SK Hynix Semiconductor Inc. logo is displayed at the company's plant during a media tour organized by Korea Industrial Complex Corp. (KICOX) in Cheongju, South Korea, on Friday, Nov. 23, 2012. KICOX, which develops and manages industrial complexes and support for resident enterprises as a public company under South Korea's Ministry of Knowledge Economy, held a media tour to the plant
In a bid to meet the memory supply crisis head on, SK Hynix announces it will invest nearly $13 billion into fresh AI packaging facility

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News But shortages still won't be alleviated any time soon.

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