As DDR5 memory has just completed its initial penetration in the consumer market and continues to steadily increase its adoption in the server sector, discussions about DDR6 have quietly started to heat up both inside and outside the industry. This is not an “overly premature hype” in the technology field, but an inevitable result of market demand and technological evolution.

In daily use, flash drives and portable SSDs are both “portable storage devices.” Many people wonder whether these two devices are essentially the same thing. The answer is no, although they look very similar

DWPD stands for Drive Writes Per Day, meaning how many times a solid-state drive can be fully written to each day during its warranty period. It is commonly used in the specifications of enterprise-grade solid-state drives or data center SSDs because these devices often face high-intensity writes.

On December 3, 2025, Micron Technology officially confirmed that it will gradually exit the consumer product business under its Crucial brand. This decision means that Crucial memory and SSD products will stop supplying mainstream consumer channels in early 2026.

EDSFF stands for “Enterprise and Datacenter Standard Form Factor”. By unifying mechanical dimensions and interface specifications, EDSFF enables SSDs from different manufacturers with different specifications to be interchangeably used on standardized server chassis, racks, and backplanes.