solid state drive

Memory and data storage producer Micron have begun production and shipment of the world’s first 232-layer NAND in Singapore, which marks the first time a NAND manufacturer has surpassed 200 layers. This opens the door for the world’s first 200TB SSDs. For comparison, even the flashiest personal computers usually stop at 2TB of storage, and the current largest SSD in the world is Nimbus Data’s 100TB ExaDrive.Prior to the innovation, the company’s NAND topped out at 176-layers. The new NAND is also 50% faster than Micron’s…

MacBook Pro 13 Photo: Phillip Tracy/GizmodoApple boasted at WWDC 2022 about the performance of its M2 chip but failed to mention anything about slower SSD speeds in the refreshed MacBook Pro 13. As MacRumors reports, YouTubers Max Tech and Created Tech discovered that the base model with 256GB of storage has significantly reduced storage speeds compared to the previous M1 MacBook Pro.And by significantly, I mean that the read and write speeds are about 50% and 30% slower, respectively, than before. The two YouTuber…

Microsoft is planning to make it mandatory for PC makers to switch from hard disk drives (HDDs) to solid state drives (SSDs) for their Windows 11 PCs coming in 2023, according to a report. The reported move by the software giant is expected to result in an increase in the prices of PCs as manufacturers would need to spend more on picking SSDs in replacement of traditional spinning hard drives. However, the switch could help users get performance enhancements. A large number of Windows laptops nowadays already have SSDs…