Kiwi Stories

Hands-on Review: Kingston NV1 NVMe SSD

NVMe SSDs, like Kingston's NV1, offer lightning-fast storage in a tiny form factor, making them ideal for budget PC builds.

By Darren Price • 3 min read • Fri, 4th Jun 2021

Global Stories

Storage

Hands-on Review: WD My Passport SSD Review - Simplifying Storage!

The WD My Passport SSD is a high-speed, palm-sized portable storage device that offers impressive performance and a sleek design.

By Darren Price • 3 min read • Mon, 7th Aug 2023

Seagate

Seagate sets new playing field with latest product launch

Seagate Technology has introduced the next generation of SSD technology to its lineup, the FireCuda 540, now in Australia and New Zealand.

By Kaleah Salmon • 3 min read • Mon, 24th Jul 2023

Storage

Pure Storage enters age of AI with wide-ranging storage portfolio

Pure Storage has become the first technology provider to cover all customer storage needs with all-flash, delivering greater reliability and efficiency.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Thu, 15th Jun 2023

Hyperscale

Seagate, Phison partnership to improve data center offering

Seagate and Phison have announced plans to expand their SSD portfolio to assist data center customers in reducing total cost ownership (TCO).

By Zach Thompson • 2 min read • Mon, 11th Apr 2022

Gaming

Hands-on Review: PNY XLR8 Gaming NVMe Gen4x4 SSD and PS5 SSD Cover with integrated heatsink

PNY has released its XLR8 Gaming CS3140 M.2 2280 NVMe PCIe Gen4x4 solid-state drive and PS5 SSD cover with an integrated heatsink.

By Darren Price • 7 min read • Wed, 12th Jan 2022

Gaming

PNY announces the launch of XLR8 M.2 NVMe Gen4x4 SSD and PNY XLR8 PlayStation 5 SSD Heatsink

PNY has launched the XLR8 PS5 SSD Heatsink, allowing their M.2 NVMe Gen4x4 SSDs to be used as ultra-fast storage upgrades for Sony's PlayStation 5.

By Darren Price • 3 min read • Wed, 15th Dec 2021

Storage

Viking Enterprise Solutions and Kalray launch new generation of storage arrays

Viking Enterprise Solutions and Kalray are co-developing FLASHBOX, a new generation of storage arrays for AI and data-intensive applications.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Thu, 22nd Jul 2021

Storage

The pandemic has caused a 30% increase in flash drive prices and eight-week shipping delays

Online storage platform StorONE says flash drive pricing has increased by 30%, and buyers are seeing eight-week delays so far in 2021.

By Ryan Morris-Reade • 3 min read • Wed, 9th Jun 2021

Gaming

Hands-on Review: WD_Black SN850 NVMe SSD Game Drive

Western Digital sets out to speed up data storage with its WD_Black SN850 NVMe SSD Game Drive. Does it live up to its claims?.

By Darren Price • 5 min read • Mon, 19th Apr 2021

Gaming

Hands-on Review: SanDisk Extreme Pro portable SSD

Sandisk Extreme Pro portable SSD offers blazing fast speeds, but its full potential is limited by current USB technology.

By Darren Price • 4 min read • Tue, 12th Jan 2021

Samsung

Samsung unveils new SSD, optimised for 4K and 8K contents

Samsung launches SSD 980 PRO, its first consumer PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD, with up to 7,000 MB/s sequential read speeds.

By Nick Forrester • 2 min read • Fri, 20th Nov 2020

Storage

Seagate rolls out 18TB helium-based Exos-X18 enterprise drives

Seagate is now shipping the 18 terabyte (TB) helium-based enterprise drive, which is a new additions to Seagate's Exos-X18 family.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Fri, 25th Sep 2020

Manufacturing

The villain lurking in your PC - a cautionary tale

Deadly flaw discovered in popular hard drive - Seagate Barracuda drives using SMR technology at risk of failure. Backup recommended.

By Darren Price • 5 min read • Tue, 15th Sep 2020

Western Digital

Western Digital introduces new My Passport SSD

Western Digital launches new My Passport SSD with fast data access and compact design for business users, casual users and content creators.

By Darren Price • 3 min read • Fri, 28th Aug 2020

Storage

WD's new bunch-of-flash shared storage solution

New Ultrastar NVMe SSDs and RapidFlex NVMe-oF controllers are standalone solutions that combine creating the OpenFlex Data24 NVMe-oF Storage Platform.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Mon, 29th Jun 2020

Storage

Intel announces portfolio update for AI-focused solutions

Intel has launched its 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable processors with built-in bfloat16 support, enhancing AI, analytics, and inferencing in data centres.

By Staff Writer • 4 min read • Tue, 23rd Jun 2020

Storage

Kingston Technology releases data center NVMe SSD boot drive

DC1000B is designed in a 2280 form factor that includes onboard power-loss protection and is engineered with 0.5DWPD endurance for extended service life.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Wed, 15th Jan 2020