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The article argues that Amazon S3's dominance in cloud architecture is based on legacy hardware assumptions that are becoming obsolete with advancements in SSDs and networking, suggesting potential shifts towards faster, more integrated storage solutions.

This paper investigates placement policies for KV cache across GPU, CPU, and SSD tiers to optimize LLM serving for long-lived sessions, evaluating policies like recency and reuse-frequency and finding workload-specific recommendations for migration and prefetch.

A tweet showcasing four Intel Optane P5800X storage devices, accompanied by an image and a link for more details.

The Verge covers a deal on Samsung's 2TB 9100 Pro PCIe Gen 5 SSD for $302.99, noting it's cheaper than usual and a good buy, along with other deals like Samsung's M8 monitor.

A comprehensive guide to the best external hard drives for various needs including backups, gaming, and video editing, updated with current prices and recommendations.

Introduces LipSSD, a Lipschitz-constrained variant of Single Shot MultiBox Detector that improves adversarial robustness in object detection while being attack-agnostic and complementary to adversarial training. Evaluated on Pascal VOC, LARD, and KITTI datasets.

TF-Engram introduces a train-free system that stores phrase-level semantic memory on a GPU-DRAM-SSD hierarchy for LLMs, using predictive prefetching to hide latency, and demonstrates improved downstream performance on Qwen3-0.6B.

Framework announces lower SSD pricing and free 1TB upgrades for some Laptop 13 Pro preorders, but warns of imminent price hikes due to rising CPU costs.

The Samsung 990 Pro SSD is on sale for its lowest price in 2026 during Prime Day, offering a significant discount amid rising memory prices driven by AI data center demand.

A bug in OpenAI's Codex could potentially damage SSDs within a year, raising concerns about hardware safety.

SanDisk announced the new Optimus GX PRO 850P NVMe SSD for PS5, with the 8TB model costing $2,959.99, more than three PS5 Pro consoles.

A new technique called FROST exploits SSD timing side channels in browsers to spy on users' activities, identifying open websites and apps without requiring any interaction beyond visiting a malicious site.

Kioxia and Dell have collaborated to create a 2RU server with nearly 10 PB of all-flash storage using 40 Kioxia LC9 245.76 TB SSDs, enabling high-density AI infrastructure.

This paper proposes out-of-place write optimizations for database systems to fully leverage SSD performance, achieving 1.65-2.24x throughput improvement and 6.2-9.8x reduction in flash writes on OLTP benchmarks.

This paper presents techniques and best practices for writing to SSDs efficiently, covering aspects such as write patterns, buffering, and file system optimizations.

A detailed blog post about building a high-end Linux PC in 2025, including component selection, setup, and troubleshooting a faulty Intel CPU.