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When it launched over a year ago, the Crucial T700 was undoubtedly the fastest consumer-grade SSD. Now, its successor, the Crucial T705 — first announced on February 20, 2024, and officially available for purchase today — changes that. In my testing, the new Crucial T705 edges out its predecessor as …
The new Samsung SSD 990 EVO — first announced on January 23, 2024 — is a special PCIe 5.0 NVMe internal SSD that is actually more of a PCIe 4.0 drive. This dual-mode approach seems odd at first, but it makes quite a bit of sense. In fact, it’s great …
The DS223 is the first standard Synology NAS server I’ve officially tested in a long time. Previously, I’ve reviewed mostly the Plus line. But after getting a third unit for personal use — the server was first available in February — I decided it deserved a review. Here’s the bottom …
Samsung today unveiled its T5 EVO portable state drive (SSD) — the first on the market that can hold up to 8TB of storage space — double that of the second largest portable SSDs. Other than that, per Samsung, the new external storage device also comes in a sleek and …
At the announcement on October 31, 2023, Micron’s latest NVMe solid-state drive (SSD), the Crucial T500, was a bit of a surprise: it’s another PCIe 4.0 NVMe drive. Considering the many PCIe 5.0 counterparts, including Micron’s own Crucial T700 that came out in late May, is this new internal drive …
The Samsung T9 Portable SSD, announced on October 3, 2023, is easily the best USB external storage the electronics giant has had. It represents the latest in the company’s popular Portable SSD series and is the first that features USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 (20Gbps). At the core, though, the new …
