Spending $2,700 on 8TB storage for a $700 game console?
SanDisk announced the officially licensed Optimus GX PRO 850P M.2 NVMe SSD for PS5 and PS5 Pro, offering up to 8TB of PCIe 4.0 storage with a custom heatsink and high performance, but its extremely high pricing has quickly become the main talking point...
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AMD's newest acquisition isn't a chip maker. It's MEXT, whose software makes NAND flash look like DRAM to the operating system, so a server runs on far less expensive memory. An AI engine predicts which data is about to be needed and moves it into DRAM before the app asks. With DRAM prices up sharply in 2026, here's the logic behind the deal, and why a 50x cost gap won't land in your budget intact.
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AMD's MEXT acquisition makes cheap NAND flash act like DRAM in servers. How predictive memory tiering works, what it really saves, and why DRAM prices made it worth it.BSR Admin (BuySellRam)