Tag NAND

Hardware

What an SSD Warranty Actually Refunds in a Shortage

Amber chart drawn to scale: a 4TB portable SSD's street price climbing from its $199.99 invoice to the above-$500 listing reported in August 2026, with a dashed reference line on the same scale at the $199.99 the warranty refund pays and a bracket marking the gap between them. Headline reads SSD warranty refunds, $200 back, $500+ to replace.

A failed drive is now settled by a clause most buyers never read, YMTC wants the NAND crown by 2027, and Samsung's new Odyssey OLEDs change subpixels rather than headline numbers.

Saya
August 29, 2026

Market & Pricing

DDR5 Closes a 500 Percent Year, and NVIDIA Sells at RRP While Supplies Last

A staircase of pixel blocks whose last step is 5.85 times the height of the first, the roughly 485 percent year of DDR5 retail increases drawn to scale.

US DDR5 kits close out a year of roughly 500 percent gains, monitor vendors warn distributors, and the one place selling RTX 50 Founders Editions at RRP is a queue in Cologne.

Saya
August 25, 2026

Hardware

ASUS Pushes QD-OLED to 500 Hz, and Flash Learns an HBM Trick

Dense green pixel field brightening toward a central drive point, a QHD panel pushed to 500 Hz, above a centered headline.

ASUS lists a 500 Hz QD-OLED for competitive play, and Sandisk and SK hynix publish the first formal spec for NAND that behaves like HBM.

Saya
August 15, 2026

Hardware

The Densest NAND Chip Yet Is Built for Servers, and OLED Gets a Cheaper Recipe

Two panel stacks with exact layer counts, three grey slabs beside two green ones, the two-stack WOLED recipe cutting a layer.

Kioxia and Sandisk show the highest-density QLC NAND yet at Flash Memory Summit, and LG Display cuts an OLED emissive layer to chase cheaper monitor panels.

Saya
August 8, 2026