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Understanding Floating Gate Transistors: The Building Blocks of SSDs

Every time you save a document, take a photo, or download an app on your computer, smartphone, or tablet, you're relying on an amazing piece of technology: the floating gate transistor. These are the fundamental building

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Beginner's SSD Compatibility Guide for PCs (2025)

As you have probably noticed, SSDs come in many flavors in the form of interfaces and form factors. When buying a new SSD online, you will encounter technical terms like M.2, SATA, 2.5\", PCIe, NVMe, and quite a few othe

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What Is SSD Wear Leveling?

To understand wear leveling in SSDs, we need to take a quick look at of how NAND Flash memory works: Data is stored inside the cells in the NAND Flash chips in your solid-state drive. Depending on the type, these cells h

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Kioxia BG7 SSDs Bring BiCS 218-Layer Flash to OEM Market

Kioxia has unveiled its BG7 Series solid state drives at CES 2026, the first client SSDs to feature the company's eighth-generation BiCS Flash NAND. The launch arrives at a time when manufacturers redirect capacity towar

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Silicon Motion Unveils SM8388: Power-Efficient PCIe Gen5 Controller

Silicon Motion has just introduced the SM8388 , an 8-channel PCIe Gen5 enterprise SSD controller that prioritizes power efficiency without sacrificing performance. The controller delivers 14.4GB/s sequential read through

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