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The Crucial T700, officially available today, is Micron’s first PCIe 5.0 NVMe solid-state drive and one of the first on the market. It more than meets the great performance expectations—it is easily the fastest SSD to date. But that comes with a few catches. The new drive is expensive. It …
Samsung today made available its latest flagship NVMe solid-state drive, the 990 PRO. The company first announced this drive in late August. The new internal SSD aims to replace the previous model, the 980 PRO, that came out more than two years ago. As it turned out, this latest Samsung …
On April 26, 2022, Samsung released the T7 Shield—a new variant of its flagship portable solid-state drives (SSDs), the T7 Touch, and T7 that came out in January and July 2020. For the most part, the new mobile storage device is essentially the same as the T7 version but now …
The Samsung 980 solid-state drive (SSD), unveiled today, is an interesting case. It’s the first NVMe drive from the electronic giant that doesn’t have the PRO, EVO, or QVO suffix attached to it—just 980. Also, unlike the recently released 980 PRO, it doesn’t support the PCIe 4.0. Instead, it uses …
The Samsung 980 PRO NVMe SSD, first released in September 2020, is the flagship upgrade to the 970 PRO of mid-2018. What’s most significant, the new internal storage device is the electronic giant’s first consumer-grade NVMe SSD that supports the latest PCIe 4.0 standard instead of the popular decade-old PCIe …
As the name suggests, the new Samsung 870 EVO solid-state drive (SSD), officially announced today, is the upgrade to the 860 EVO that came out two years ago. And it really is, sharing similar hardware components yet being much faster. In reality, though, this new internal drive is more like …
At some $120 for 500GB—or $220 and $380 for 1TB and 2TB, respectively—the Samsung T7 Touch is quite a great deal. Or you can get the non-touch version, the Samsung T7, for $10 to $30 less, depending on the capacities. While the Samsung T7 and Samsung T7 Touch are not …
