Jasmine Mannan Apr 12, 2026, 2:31 PM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming hardware, she's covered just about everything. …
… Consumer-level hardware is rarely built to the standards required for longevity, and MLO generates a lot of heat because multiple radios operate at once. …
… Samsung 990 EVO Plus 8 /10 Storage capacity 1TB, 2TB, 4TB Hardware Interface PCIe Gen 4 x4 / Gen 5 x2 TBW 600TB per TB DRAM N/A $371 at Amazon $359 at Newegg Related DDR5 RAM prices tripled in six months, and nobody is talking about when they'll come back down Is there a light at the end of this tu… …
… An MBA in Marketing and the owner of a PC building business, he writes on PC hardware, technology, and Windows. …
… SteamOS is no longer being tuned exclusively for one fixed hardware target. …
… Samsung 980 Pro 1TB Storage capacity 1TB Hardware Interface PCIe 4.0 Brand Samsung Transfer rate 7,000/5,000 MB/s read/write TBW 600 DRAM 1GB DDR4 $245 at Amazon
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… They're inexpensive for what you get, constantly being restocked because of corporate hardware refresh cycles, and have features that are normally locked to enterprise-grade gear. It's a no-brainer for anyone looking to upgrade their home lab, and certainly worth considering over new hardware.
… The ongoing DRAM crisis has made the kind of incremental hardware refresh the segment relies on prohibitively expensive, and large manufacturers across the board have either delayed or scrapped the plans for new handhelds altogether. …
… What started six months ago with a DRAM shortage snowballed into higher-than-ever RAM and SSD prices. By the time the year was done, we saw GPU price hikes, too, as VRAM got more expensive and manufacturers stopped caring about consumer hardware . …
