SSD
AssessTechniques
Solid-state storage built from flash memory, used as a fast alternative to hard drives.
Why it's here
Placed in Assess: 4 article(s) of evidence from 2 source(s), led by research-stage coverage, with 1 in the last 30 days. Confidence 48%.
Evidence (4)
- 6InfoQ·9/16/2026researchPinterest Upgrades Manas with Quantization for More Efficient Search
Pinterest Engineering has improved its Manas search platform to handle large-scale data more efficiently for search and discovery. The system uses Scalar and Product Quantization to reduce memory use while preserving high recall, and it is moving toward multi-vector models with SSD-backed storage for better relevance matching.
- 6Hacker News·9/8/2026researchKimi K3 runs at 1 token per second on a MacBook Pro via streamed SSDs
The post demonstrates running the Kimi K3 2.8T model locally on a MacBook Pro at about 1 token per second. It uses four SSDs to stream model data, highlighting an experimental approach to making a very large model usable on consumer hardware.
- 7Hacker News·9/1/2026open_sourceSlotstream runs a 125B Qwen3.8 model on a 48GB Mac
Slotstream is a new approach for running the 125B-parameter Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model in 4-bit on low-memory Macs, starting from 16GB RAM. It uses expert offloading and SSD streaming to reduce memory requirements while keeping the system mac-native through MLX and Swift, with an auto mode that balances speed and memory use.
- 8Hacker News·8/7/2026research2027 memory capacity reportedly sold out
A report cited by IGN claims Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron have already sold through their 2027 DRAM and HBM manufacturing capacity, largely to AI buyers. The article says this could keep memory and SSD prices elevated for longer, as demand for NAND storage is also rising.