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A guide outlines how to reuse a solid-state drive removed from an old or upgraded laptop by placing it into an external enclosure, turning it into a fast USB storage device. It notes that removal is only possible on laptops where the SSD isn't soldered to the logic board, as is common with Apple's MacBooks, and that buyers need an enclosure matching their drive's form factor, either 2.5-inch SATA or M.2 NVMe.
Amazon has cut the price of the 4TB Samsung 990 Pro PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSD from $1,099.99 to $799.90, a reduction of over $300. The discount brings the drive's cost down to roughly 20 cents per gigabyte.
Seoul-based SSD controller maker FADU introduced File-Semantic SSD (FS-SSD) at the 2026 OCP Global Summit, a design that moves filesystem logic into the SSD so GPUs, DPUs, and NICs can access files without a host filesystem, block layer, or storage-server CPU. In FADU's preliminary NFS-over-NVMe test on its FC6161 Gen6 controller, throughput held around 460,000 ops/s whether the server used 16 cores or just one, far outperforming Linux NFS-over-RDMA, which dropped from about 150,000 to 40,000 ops/s. FADU says the technology is still under active development, with Gen6-host results expected by Q1 2027 and partner samples by Q3 2027.
With DDR5 memory, NVMe SSDs and GPUs all seeing sharp price increases online, Micro Center's roughly 30 U.S. brick-and-mortar locations are reportedly offering better value through bundled component deals than major online retailers like Newegg, Amazon and Best Buy. The report notes an Nvidia RTX 5090 currently sells for $6,549.99 from a third-party Amazon seller, far above its $1,999.99 launch MSRP.
A project called Janas-LLM has published benchmarks showing it can run large mixture-of-experts models, including a 48GB Qwen3-Next-80B model, on a 32GB laptop by streaming model 'experts' from an NVMe SSD rather than keeping everything in RAM. Tests on an Intel Core Ultra 9 185H laptop with its integrated Arc GPU showed Janas-LLM generating text at 24 tokens/sec versus llama.cpp's 2.8 tokens/sec on that model, with similar gains across a dozen other open models from Qwen and Gemma families. The developers released a benchmarking tool, janas-bench, and installation instructions for Linux x86-64 so others can reproduce results on their own hardware.
At POSETTE 2026, Sai Srirampur presented a benchmark comparing a 3.3-billion-row PostgreSQL workload running on baseline gp3 EBS storage versus local NVMe storage. The talk argued that common scaling symptoms—slow ingestion, inconsistent read latency, autovacuum falling behind, and slower checkpoints—often trace back to storage performance rather than Postgres itself, and proposed architecture patterns for running Postgres on local NVMe in production.
Kioxia has introduced its LD4-series SSDs in the E1.L form factor, built on BiCS8 3D QLC NAND and targeted at read-heavy hyperscale workloads such as AI storage and object storage. The drives currently ship at up to 30.72TB, but Kioxia says the underlying architecture has been validated to support capacities as high as 122.88TB, without giving a launch timeline for those larger models.
Newegg offers the 4TB Teamgroup T-Force G50 Evo NVMe SSD at a discounted price of $399.99 with a promo code, making it roughly 10 cents per gigabyte. The drive features PCIe 4.0 support, high read/write speeds, and a three-year warranty, with a graphene heatsink for thermal management.
BiWin has released the CL 100 Mini, an NVMe 1.4 SSD with PCIe 4.0 that measures just 15 x 17 mm, roughly the size of a microSD card. It's designed for specific slots on OneXPlayer and GPD Win5 handhelds, offering sequential read/write speeds of 3700/3400 MB/s, and is available in 512GB and 1TB capacities on Amazon for €139.99 and €259.99 respectively, with a 2TB version also listed.
Average consumer memory prices have risen sharply since last September, with 2TB NVMe SSDs up 137%, 32GB DDR5 kits up 363%, and some 64GB DDR5-6000 kits up nearly 500%. High-capacity RAM like 128GB and 512GB ECC kits has become scarce or drastically more expensive, and a 4TB Samsung SSD that cost $390 in 2024 now runs $1,100. IDC data cited alongside these figures shows smartphone average selling prices are also expected to climb 27.6% in 2026 amid falling shipments, while Apple has raised prices across much of its product line.
SanDisk has launched the Optimus GX Pro 850P, a Gen 4 NVMe SSD with a heatsink built for the PS5 that shares its underlying design with the WD Black SN850X. The lineup spans 1TB to 8TB capacities priced from $309.99 to $2,249.99, featuring DRAM, TLC 3D NAND, speeds up to 7,300 MB/s read, and a 5-year warranty.
Solid-state drives now come in two main interface types: SATA, which tops out near 600 MB/s in theory and 500-560 MB/s in real-world use, and NVMe, which runs over PCIe and can hit roughly 3,500 MB/s on older Gen3 drives up to nearly 15,000 MB/s on newer Gen5 models. Both technologies store data on flash memory and vastly outperform mechanical hard drives, but they differ sharply in how they connect to and communicate with a computer.