Apple Store Prices for SanDisk SSDs Are Suddenly Astronomical

Ah, SanDisk external SSDs with those big keychain loops. If you’re an average consumer, they’re awesome and convenient. If you’re a seasoned professional or data hoarder, they’re too unreliable, I’m told. At any rate, they look cool and they’re historically a relatively cheap place to stash some terabytes. But not anymore—at least not if you … Read more

New SanDisk Boosts Data Storage Capacity & Bigger QLC Data Center SSD

New SanDisk Logo SanDisk SanDisk will be a separate company again, split off from Western Digital likely before the end of February. At an investor day event executives from the new company gave a report on what to expect. The chart below shows historical trends and expectations for growth in storage capacity of NAND flash. … Read more

Solid State Storage And Memory At The 2025 CES

Tom Coughlin at the 2025 CES Coughlin Associates Digital storage and memory enable all of our consumer devices and applications, whether running on a local device or from the cloud. My next blogs will look at various digital storage products and some AI related technology I saw at the 2025 CES in Las Vegas. This … Read more