Kioxia introduces the LD4, its first E1.L SSD, with samples at 15.36 TB and 30.72 TB
Kioxia's LD4 is its first E1.L SSD, built on QLC flash for 1U servers. The 15.36 TB and 30.72 TB drives are sampling, and the release labels the PCIe link Gen 4 x4.
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Hardware roundup: a cheap NVMe SSD’s write speed falls 95% once its cache runs dry, testing finds
Igor's Lab measured a budget PCIe 4.0 SSD collapsing from 4 GB/s to about 150 MB/s after its cache fills. LG also began mass production of a 720Hz Full HD OLED gaming panel.
Kioxia Moves Its 100 Million IOPS SSD to 2028
The successor to the first ten-million-IOPS drive was a 2027 part and is now a 2028 one, held there by a flash generation and a PCIe revision that both have to arrive first.
What an SSD Warranty Actually Refunds in a Shortage
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.
DDR5 Closes a 500 Percent Year, and NVIDIA Sells at RRP While Supplies Last
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.
The Densest NAND Chip Yet Is Built for Servers, and OLED Gets a Cheaper Recipe
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.