SSDs in 2026: AI is reshaping the market, but headline bandwidth is not everything
Enterprise demand supports pricing while PCIe 6.0 advances in servers. What that means for a home SSD and how to read its specifications.
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SSDs & HDDs
SSDs and hard drives: NVMe, NAND, magnetic recording, controllers, firmware and reliability.
TLC or QLC: choose an SSD for the workload, not three letters
Bits per cell are only part of the picture. A practical guide to sustained writes, endurance, utilisation and independent backups.
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Hard drives are still evolving: what HAMR changes, and why SSDs have not replaced HDDs
A practical look at magnetic recording density, high-capacity enterprise drives and the role of a hard disk in a home archive.
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