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I tested Raspberry Pi's new USB flash drive, and it has one key advantage over competitors (zdnet.com)

2026-02-06 | by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | related products | tags: drive, drives, flash

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Lucky scavenger finds $1,300 worth of SSDs for just $210 in Walmart's clearance aisle — haul includes two 2TB WD SN770, a 2TB Samsung T5 Evo, and a 1 TB PNY CS2241 (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-06 | by Hassam Nasir | related products | tags: clearance, drives, just

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PNY CS2342 2TB SSD Review: High-Capacity TLC Performance In M.2 2230 (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-06 | by Shane Downing | related products | tags: drive, drives, flash

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Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-05 | by Anton Shilov | related products | tags: digital, drives, hamr

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New website helps you find the cheapest storage by cost per gigabyte (techspot.com)

2026-02-05 | related products | tags: actual, actual storage, bulk

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I tested Raspberry Pi's new USB flash drive - and it has a critical advantage over competitors (zdnet.com)

2026-02-03 | by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | related products | tags: drive, drives, flash

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Western Digital unveils massive 40TB HDD with energy-assisted recording tech — plans 100TB HAMR hard drives by 2029 (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-03 | by Anton Shilov | related products | tags: digital, drives, epmr

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The 30-Year Nostalgia Cycle Has Me Actually Excited for a PC With Fake Floppy Drives (gizmodo.com)

2026-01-29 | related products | tags: desktop, desperately, desperately wondering

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How heavy was the first ever 1 GB hard drive? (techspot.com)

2026-01-29 | related products | tags: bfg read, drives, drives handles

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Microsoft Gave FBI a Set of BitLocker Encryption Keys To Unlock Suspects' Laptops (slashdot.org)

2026-01-23 | related products | tags: bitlocker, case, drives

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Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-23 | by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | related products | tags: access, bitlocker, drives

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Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects’ laptops: Reports (techcrunch.com)

2026-01-23 | by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | related products | tags: access, bitlocker, drives

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Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects’ laptops: reports (techcrunch.com)

2026-01-23 | by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | related products | tags: access, bitlocker, drives

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Kioxia exec says the AI boom means the era of the cheap 1TB SSD is over —company's NAND supply is sold out for this year and likely through 2027 (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-21 | by Zhiye Liu | related products | tags: drives, kioxia, nakato

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Best External Hard Drive (2026): SSD to Store Data, Video & More (wired.com)

2026-01-17 | by Scott Gilbertson | related products | tags: best, drive, drives

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Hard Drive Prices Have Surged By an Average of 46% Since September (slashdot.org)

2026-01-16 | by Posted | related products | tags: average price, capacity, checks

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Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-16 | by Stephen Warwick | related products | tags: capacity, drives, increases

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Many high-capacity NVMe SSDs are now as expensive as gold by weight as shortage intensifies — we ran the numbers, here's what we found (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-16 | by Bruno Ferreira | related products | tags: best, drives, models

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Ask HN: Anyone have a good solution for modern Mac to legacy SCSI converters? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-15 | related products | tags: attaching, attaching old, drives

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Seagate launches three new 32 TB hard drives across its product lines, all using CMR tech — SkyHawk AI drive starts from $699, flagship Exos at $849 (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-14 | by Hassam Nasir | related products | tags: drives, exos, seagate

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SanDisk Says Goodbye To WD Blue and Black SSDs, Hello To New 'Optimus' Drives (slashdot.org)

2026-01-05 | by Posted | related products | tags: black, drives, level

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SanDisk says goodbye to WD Blue and Black SSDs, hello to new “Optimus” drives (arstechnica.com)

2026-01-05 | related products | tags: black, drives, optimus

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Adata XPG Mars 980 Blade 2TB SSD Review: Affordable Luxury (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-31 | by Shane Downing | related products | tags: blade, drive, drives

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Adata XPG Mars 980 Blade 2TB SSD Review — Affordable Luxury (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-31 | by Shane Downing | related products | tags: blade, drive, drives

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The best SSDs for PS5 in 2026 (engadget.com)

2025-12-26 | related products | tags: drive, drives, games

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The best SSDs in 2026 (engadget.com)

2025-12-23 | related products | tags: best, drive, drives

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Registry hack enables new performance-boosting native NVMe support on Windows 11 — Windows Server 2025 feature can be unlocked for consumer PCs, but at your own risk (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-20 | by Jowi Morales | related products | tags: commands, drives, feature

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Windows Server 2025 gains native NVMe support, 14 years after its introduction — groundbreaking I/O stack drops SCSI emulation limitations for massive throughput and CPU efficiency gains (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-18 | by Bruno Ferreira | related products | tags: drives, lower, performance

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Goodram's massive DC25F enterprise SSDs are ready for the immersion-cooled future — 123TB QLC drive boasts compatibility with multiple coolants (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-17 | by Aaron Klotz | related products | tags: cooling, drive, drives

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Boy breaks 50 of his father's Samsung M.2 NVMe SSDs worth nearly $4,000 — 25,600 GB of storage ruined by ten-year-old oblivious to global NAND crisis (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-16 | by Mark Tyson | related products | tags: bent, drives, post