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Samsung P9 portable SSD is a US$339.99 bet that your work involves moving enough data to notice a 4,000 MB/s ceiling. Samsung says the new USB4 drive can read at up to 4,000 MB/s and write at up to 3,800 MB/s. Those are very impressive claims. They are not independent test results, and most people … Read more
Self hosted cloud storage from a 2010 server and a 2026 rebuild. See current cloud prices, honest costs, Seafile vs Nextcloud, backups, and build lessons.
SSD prices are unlikely to fall broadly in the rest of 2026, but Canadian retail prices are no longer moving in one direction. From July 24 to August 29, our tracker found the lowest qualifying Gen4 1TB price rose 11.1%, while Gen4 2TB fell 3.7% and Gen5 2TB rose 2.5%. NAND contracts are still forecast … Read more
The Samsung 990 QLC is slower than the drive it effectively replaces, ships without a DRAM cache, and still costs more than that older model did when it launched. It reached Samsung’s US store this month at CA$378 (US$270) for 1TB and CA$743 (US$530) for 2TB, and reviewers tacked “QLC” onto the name to keep … Read more
