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Chinese-made YMTC SSDs have been spotted in Lenovo's latest ThinkBook laptops, as the memory crisis continues to bite
News That's one way to cut costs.
Amazon Prime Day SSD deals
Prime Day 2026 We're looking for the best SSD deals to weather the memory crisis.
SanDisk's latest Optimus gaming SSDs start at $799 MSRP for the 2 TB model and you don't even get Gen 5 speeds for that
News There is a Gen 5 model, but it starts at $525 for the 1 TB drive. Bargain!
Silicon Motion says 'the retail SSD market has almost disappeared' as NAND shifts towards AI servers and OEMs scoop up the drives that usually sit in our gaming PCs
News Yet another day during the RAMpocalypse.
Consumer rights champion and tech-whizz Louis Rossman is taking Samsung to court over a failed 990 Pro SSD it says it can't replace, even though Amazon has plenty of them in stock
News The fact that they now cost $949 instead of $300 surely has nothing to do with it, right?
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An SSD company has just agreed to an almost $2 billion multi-year NAND deal, which is a sign it expects the memory crisis to stick around for a while
News It could be a very good deal for Biwin if NAND prices continue to rise.
NAND flash makers earned a record $46 billion in revenues over the first quarter of 2026, a shocking 3.5 times more than last year
News Gosh, I wonder how? Was it AI, by any chance?
Samsung has reportedly developed 900-layer flash memory chips and I'm thinking SSDs could get seriously cheap if this AI bubble ever pops
News Two 450-layer memory chips bonded together.
