Goes full water-cooled for AI SSD at GTC 2025

Solidigm has just removed the fans from its enterprise SSDs and submerged them in liquid cooling at GTC 2025.

Roadmap opened

SanDisk has been discussing its roadmap to build an UltraQLC-based 1PB solid-state drives (SSDs) and discussed the challenges of developing 3D DRAM during its Investor Day event.

As portable as it can get

Seagate has unveiled its new Ultra Compact SSD series, a portable thumb-drive-sized SSD that will be available in 1TB and 2TB capacities, as well as offer transfer speeds of up to 1,000MB/s.

HAMR technology

Seagate has released its largest hard drive yet, a 32TB model built on the long-awaited heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology. The drive is based on Seagate’s advanced Mozaic 3+ platform.

Up to 10,300 and 8,600 MB/s transfer speeds and 1TB and 2TB capacities

PNY has introduced its latest CS2150 M.2 NVMe PCIe Gen5 x4 SSD, and did it at a rather affordable price point, offering 1TB at just $100 and 2TB at $180.

High performance for exascale data center deployments

Micron Technology has announced the begining of qualification for its new 6550 ION NVMe SSD, the world's fastest 60 TB data center SSD, and the industry's first E3.S PCIe Gen 5 60TB SSD.

M.2 PCIe 5.0 peaking at 10,000/8,500 MB/s

Corsair has announced its new MP700 ELITE series PCIe 5.0 M.2 SSDs that will be available with and without the heatsink, and come in 1TB and 2TB capacities.

Coming in 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB capacities

KIOXIA Europe has announced its new external storage solution, the EXCERIA PLUS G2 Portable SSD Series. To be available in 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB capacities, the EXCERIA PLUS G2 Portable Series features a USB 3.0 Gen 2 Type-C interface and impressive transfer speeds.

Kingston still king for now

Chinese SSD manufacturers are making significant strides in the SSD market, driven by strong local demand and support.

For enterprise and datacenter implementation

KIOXIA America has announced the availability of its new KIOXIA XD8 Series PCIe 5.0 Enterprise and Datacenter Standard Form Factor (EDSFF) E1.S SSDs.