Memory & Storage

14+ hour, 7+ min ago   (1634+ words) "Everyone is scrambling to release and go on sale as early as possible," said a former strategic researcher at a mobile phone manufacturer. "Previously, to avoid competing with the iPhone, the launch of new Android products was generally scheduled in…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (675+ words) Flagship phones and premium laptops can absorb a memory price spike because memory was never the dominant cost driver in the first place. A $1,000 phone spends heavily on its camera system, its display panel and its brand premium. A $120 phone…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (665+ words) Then there is networking. Synology and QNAP’s mainstream desktop tiers largely stayed on 1GbE or 2.5GbE through 2025 and into 2026, while UGREEN and TerraMaster pushed 10GbE into sub-$1,000 boxes. For Australians running fibre NBN plans at 500Mbps or above, or anyone editing video off network…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1215+ words) Xbox Series X ships with 1TB of internal NVMe SSD storage, of which roughly 800GB is usable after the OS and reserved partitions. Xbox Series S ships with a smaller 512GB drive, of which about 364GB is usable. Modern AAA titles routinely land north…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (792+ words) The "wait-for-price-cut" group, who are used to waiting for price reductions and subsidies, have encountered price hikes this year instead. Computers and tablets have also avoided the price surge. Data from the National Bureau of Statistics of China shows that…...

2+ week, 5+ hour ago   (383+ words) Lexar’s Muse portable SSD tapers to 1mm and uses a magnetic cable for phone filming, with UAE pricing still unconfirmed. Lexar has announced the Lexar Muse portable SSD, a drive that tapers to just 1mm at its edge and attaches to compatible…...

2+ week, 14+ hour ago   (298+ words) Apart from affecting consumer electronics products that use memory chips, the rising price of storage has also brought an unexpected beneficiary, which is magnetic tape. The latest data released by the LTO Consortium, composed of HPE, IBM and Quantum, shows…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (587+ words) Source: retail pricing trackers and Tom’s Hardware’s RAM price index, compiled through early September 2026. Figures reflect general retail DDR5 kit pricing and will vary by module speed, latency, and retailer. NAND flash, the memory type behind SSDs, is following a similar…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1196+ words) You don’t need special hardware to test RAM, but a few things need to be in place before you boot into a memory test. Gather these first so you’re not interrupted halfway through a multi-hour pass. Before touching MemTest86 at all,…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1008+ words) Here’s how the three drives stack up across every spec that matters for a buying decision, pulled from official product pages and independent lab tests. Manufacturer specs describe best-case performance. Independent lab tests tell a more useful story, and in…...