Samsung’s 860 QVO brings multi-terabyte SSDs down to Earth

To date, buying a multi-terabyte solid-state drive has usually meant paying through the nose. It hasn’t been uncommon to spend $ 1,000 or more to get a drive with capacity matching hard disks costing far less. That gap hasn’t completely closed yet, but it’s getting much narrower — Samsung has unveiled its promised multi-terabyte SSD […]

Microsoft blocks Windows 10 April 2018 update to some Intel SSDs

Enlarge / Intel SSD 600p. (credit: Intel) The April 2018 update for Windows 10 is now being blocked from installing on systems with certain Intel SSDs. With the update installed, systems with the Intel SSD 600p Series and Intel SSD Pro 6000p Series devices seem to crash repeatedly during startup. The problem appears to be […]

WD’s next-gen SSDs add even more speed and capacity

Hard disk specialist Western Digital (WD) acquired SSD maker SanDisk last year for a colossal $ 19 billion, and now we’re getting some idea as to its strategy. The company unveiled two new lineups — branded under each company’s names — that feature the first SSDs to use 64-layer 3D NAND chips developed by SanDisk. […]