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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 …
As the name suggests, the SK hynix Gold P31 is the NVMe version of the Gold S31 that came out last year. And that’s significant. It’s a much faster solid-state drive (SSD). Like the case of the S31, which is SK hynix’s first consumer SATA SSD, the P31 is the …
Samsung today announced two new SD cards, the PRO Plus and EVO Plus, for content creators and professional users, respectively. I took both out for a spin and found them equally great, thanks to the fast performance, ruggedness, and, most importantly, friendly costs. These cards are available 32GB, 64GB, 120GB, …
Micron’s second entry into portable solid-state drives, the Crucial X6, doesn’t have the same bang as the first, the X8. But it has some novelty of its own. This is one of the tiniest, if not the smallest, 2TB portable storage on the market. (Rumor has that there’ll be even …
Micron’s first try into the realm of portable solid-state drives proved to be a big deal. The Crucial X8 was the fastest USB-based portable SSD I tested 10 months ago. Now, with the release of the 2 TB version, it’s still the one with the fastest read speed on the …
If you’re about to upgrade your computer to an NVMe solid-state drive (SSD) or have one laying around and want to turn it into a portable drive, you’ll find this Alxum Aluminum M.2 NVME SSD Enclosure quite handy. While ready-made NVMe-based portable drives, such as the Crucial X8, can be …
The Seagate IronWolf 510 SSD is not a traditional NVMe solid-state drive. It’s the first in the market designed for NAS servers. The thing is, there aren’t many servers intended for it. Yet. Indeed, most home NAS servers use regular hard drives or SATA SSDs—like the IronWolf 110 or WD …
The Silicon Power PC60 is not a novelty, yet it manages to be somewhat of a one-of-a-kind storage device. The new portable solid-state drive (SSD) is super-light, ultra-compact, and delivered excellent performance in testing, though not the fastest I’ve seen. Available soon in capacities ranging from 240 GB to 960 …
The P34A80 SSD (model A80) is Silicon-Power’s first full NVMe solid-state drive, and, just like the name, it seems quite generic. The drive doesn’t have anything special of its own. But the standard SSD has one thing going to itself, the price. Considering the current cost of as low as …
The new WD Blue SN550 is a significant upgrade to the previous budget-minded SN500 solid-state drive (SSD). The new internal storage device has double the connection bandwidth and capacity, capping at 1TB. Most importantly, it’s also more affordable, costing as low as just 10 cents per gigabyte. At its core, …
