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Xbox expansion cards are now cheaper than SSDs, and PC users are repurposing them (techspot.com)

2026-04-18 | get Xbox Storage Expansion Card → | tags: xbox expansion cards, ssds, pc users

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MacBook Neo vs. Surface: Why spiraling RAM prices are bruising Microsoft's PC business but not Apple's (zdnet.com)

2026-04-16 | by Ed Bott | get Apple MacBook Neo → | tags: microsoft, surface, apple

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Non-functioning counterfeit Samsung 990 Pro SSDs are circulating in Europe — Despite convincing packaging, blue PCB easily gives away the dupe (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-16 | by Hassam Nasir | get Samsung 990 Pro SSD → | tags: samsung 990 pro, counterfeit ssds, europe

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These WD Black SSDs are over 60% off during Amazon's Spring Sale (zdnet.com)

2026-03-27 | by Taylor Clemons | get WD Black SSD → | tags: wd black, amazon spring sale, western digital

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Data Has Weight but Only on SSDs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-04 | by .Wp-Block-Post-Author-Name Box-Sizing Border-Box | get Solid State Drive → | tags: ssds, nand flash, linux

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SATA SSD cheated death from failed attempt at data destruction with a drill — drive emerges victorious in face-off against IT worker (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-17 | by Zhiye Liu | tags: drilling, drive, drives

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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 | get SSD → | tags: clearance, drives, just

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Fake Samsung 990 Pro passes basic checks but runs slower than a USB 2.0 drive — counterfeit SSDs proliferate as NAND shortage creates the perfect storm for bogus deals (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-02 | by Zhiye Liu | get SSD → | tags: best, drive, samsung

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SSD price tracking 2026: Lowest price on every M.2 SSD from Samsung, Western Digital, Crucial, and more — here are the best deals during the AI-driven pricing crisis (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-27 | by Ben Stockton | get M.2 → | tags: crucial, prices, samsung

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SSDs now cost 16x more than HDDs due to AI supply chain crisis — hybrid SSD + HDD datacenter deployments are now significantly cheaper to deploy than SSD-only equivalents (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-22 | by Aaron Klotz | get Datacenter → | tags: hdds, prices, setup

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SSDs now cost 16x more than HDDs — hybrid SSD + HDD datacenter deployments are now significantly cheaper to deploy than SSD-only equivalents (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-22 | by Aaron Klotz | get Datacenter → | tags: hdds, prices, setup

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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 | get NVMe → | tags: best, drives, models

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Customer orders two Samsung 9100 Pro SSDs, receives 20 SSDs worth over $5,100 instead — lucky score of two boxes packed with ultra-fast 2 TB PCIe 5.0 drives (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-26 | by Hassam Nasir | get SSD → | tags: amazon, ordered, samsung

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The SSD mistake I see everywhere - and the one model that fixes it (zdnet.com)

2025-12-22 | by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | get Solid State Drive → | tags: crucial, drive, nvme

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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 | get NAND → | tags: bent, drives, post

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Samsung may end SATA SSD production soon (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-15 | by Darren Allan | get SSD → | tags: mlid, samsung, sata

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Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-24 | get Non-Volatile Memory → | tags: lose, lose data, slowly

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Windows 11 SSD issues blamed on reviewers using ‘early versions of firmware’ (theverge.com)

2025-10-31 | by Tom Warren | get Chromecast → | tags: firmware, microsoft, phison

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Colodebug: A simple way to improve bash script debugging (2021) (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Amazon Echo Show → | tags: bash, dev, script

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The best portable SSDs for 2025 (engadget.com)

2025-10-31 | get MacBook Pro → | tags: drive, pro, ssd