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Some of the best Amazon Prime Day SSD and storage deals are still live - Samsung, WD, and more (zdnet.com)

2026-06-27 | by Taylor Clemons | get Samsung 970 Evo SSD → | tags: amazon prime day, samsung, ssds

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The Samsung 990 Pro SSD Is on Sale for the Lowest Price I’ve Seen in 2026 (wired.com)

2026-06-24 | by Scott Gilbertson | get Samsung 990 Pro SSD → | tags: samsung 990 pro, ssds, nvme

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Amazon Prime Day is live through June 26: Everything to know about end times, deals, and more (zdnet.com)

2026-06-23 | by Kayla Solino | get Amazon Prime Day Deal Guide → | tags: amazon prime day, amazon, prime day

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I found the best SSD and storage deals for Amazon Prime Day - including Samsung and Kingston (zdnet.com)

2026-06-23 | by Taylor Clemons | get Samsung 970 Evo SSD → | tags: samsung, kingston, ssds

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Best Amazon Prime Day SSD deals 2026 — savings on Samsung, WD, Crucial, and other SSDs at Amazon, Newegg, and others (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-23 | by Stewart Bendle | get Samsung 970 EVO SSD → | tags: amazon prime day, samsung 9100 pro, crucial

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I found the best SSD and storage deals ahead of Amazon Prime Day - including Samsung and Kingston (zdnet.com)

2026-06-22 | by Taylor Clemons | get Samsung 970 EVO SSD → | tags: samsung, kingston, ssds

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Sandisk's new PS5 SSDs cost up to $2,960, that's five PlayStation 5 consoles (techspot.com)

2026-06-18 | by Alfonso Maruccia | get Sandisk Extreme Portable SSD → | tags: sandisk, ps5, optimus gx pro

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Chinese makers of DRAM modules, SSDs have a serious advantage over American and Taiwanese suppliers, says SMI SVP — state guidance secures local DRAM and SSD supply while the Big Three chase AI margins (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-18 | by Anton Shilov | get Chinese DRAM and SSD kits → | tags: china, drams, ssds

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SMI's PCIe 6.0 SSD controller for consumer SSDs coming next year, but severe NAND shortages will get even worse in 2027 as AI data centers swallow supply — An interview with Silicon Motion's SVP Nelson Duann (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-16 | by Anton Shilov | get Silicon Motion PCIe 6.0 SSD → | tags: pcie 6.0, silicon motion, nand shortages

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Best Buy and Amazon just dropped prices on SSDs ahead of Memorial Day - I found the best deals (zdnet.com)

2026-05-18 | by Taylor Clemons | get Samsung 970 Evo SSD → | tags: best buy, amazon, ssds

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SSD prices skyrocket by 300% in Japan, bringing 8TB Samsung 9100 drive to an eye-watering $3,500 — industry continues to reckon with the ongoing AI storage crunch (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-13 | by Jowi Morales | get Samsung 8TB SSD → | tags: japanese, price, prices

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This Early Access pirate game was quietly killing your SSD without you knowing (techspot.com)

2026-05-02 | tags: kraken express, windrose, early access

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Kioxia says its new QLC SSDs can match TLC performance at lower cost (techspot.com)

2026-04-22 | get Kioxia QLC SSD → | tags: kioxia, eg7 series, qlc ssds

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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