Kioxia’s High-Performance 3D QLC NAND Enables High-End High-Capacity SSDs

This week, Kioxia introduced its new 3D QLC NAND devices aimed at high-performance, high-capacity drives that could redefine what we typically expect from QLC-based SSDs. The components are 1 Tb and 2 Tb 3D QLC NAND ICs with a 3600 MT/s interface speed that could enable M.2-2230 SSDs with a 4 TB capacity and decent…

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Samsung Joins The 60 TB SSD Club, Looking Forward To 120 TB Drives

Multiple companies offer high-capacity SSDs, but until recently, only two companies offered high-performance 60 TB-class drives with a PCIe interface: Solidigm and Western Digital. As our colleagues from Blocks & Files discovered, Samsung quietly rolled out its BM1743 61.44 TB solid-state drive in mid-June and now envisions 120 TB-class SSDs based on the same platform. Samsung's BM1743…

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How your Mac locks you out for more and more time when entering the wrong password

The old TV and movie trope of someone sitting down at a keyboard and rapidly trying a bunch of passwords to “hack the mainframe” never really worked. But protections that Apple built into macOS with the introduction of a Secure Enclave into its computers have taken it from imaginary and futile to completely absurd. It…

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5 reasons why your MacBook needs a docking station

MacBooks are Apple’s best-selling Macs for good reason: They offer excellent performance and they’re built for travel. Gone are the days of a lesser-powered laptop that complemented a more powerful desktop Mac. MacBooks are a user’s primary computer and that MacBook can double as a desktop Mac at your home or work desk. That MacBook…

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Uncovered Apple chip identifiers reveal surprising slate of unreleased iPads

After the iPad Pro and iPad Air launch earlier this year, we’re still expecting a new 11th-gen iPad and iPad mini before the end of 2024. Now a new leak sheds some light on what they could be packing under the hood. According to a reference in Apple’s backend code discovered by Nicolás Álvarez on…

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JSAUX FlipGo Portable Dual Monitor review: specs, performance, cost

JSAUX FlipGo Portable Dual Monitor review The JSAUX FlipGo Portable Dual Monitor transforms your mobile and desk workstation, offering a simple yet adaptable plug-and-play monitor for a myriad of productivity uses. With more people working remotely than ever before, users have found it helpful and sometimes even necessary to have multiple monitors. Relying solely on…

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