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If most portable SSD drives are fast cars, the new Samsung X5 Portable SSD is like a private jet. It’s super-fast, luxurious, and expensive. Most importantly, it’s not for everyone. This is because the drive works with Thunderbolt 3 exclusively. Consequently, it’s not compatible with any other connection types, including …
The My Passport SSD 2018 version, available up to 2TB, is a bit of a surprise. Even though it appears very similar to a namesake drive that shipped last year, it’s different enough to qualify as a new portable drive entirely. For one, it’s faster, in fact, one of the fastest …
The latest WD Black SSD turns the competition in the NVMe market up a notch. Indeed, this new drive is a significant upgrade to WD’s last year’s NVMe SSD of the same name. It’s much faster and has significantly higher endurance. At the cost of fewer than 40 cents per gigabyte, …
The Toshiba RC100 is tiny, slightly larger than an SD card, and affordable, costing just around 30 cents per gigabyte. In fact, with it, you now can get an NVMe SSD for less than the cost of a SATA SSD. And while you won’t get the best NVMe speed, the new …
The Samsung 970 PRO, as intended, is superior to the more affordable Samsung 970 EVO. It’s faster and has double the endurance—it’ll last much longer. But it’s also, in some ways, inferior. For example, it caps at 1TB, half of the Evo drive. And most importantly, at close to $.50 per …
At slightly less than 40 cents per Gigabyte, the Samsung 970 EVO is currently cheaper than its older brother, the 960 EVO that came out two years ago. It’s arguably the best “budget” NVMe solid-state drive (SSD) you can get, even though it’s not the most affordable on the market. …
The Crucial MX500 isn’t the fastest SSD I’ve worked with, but it has one thing to its advantage: the price. At just around 25 cents per gigabyte, it’s one of the most affordable new SSDs you can find. If you’ve been on the fence about the Samsung 860 EVO because …
The Samsung 860 EVO is supposed to be an inferior solid-state drive (SSD) compared to the high-end SSD 860 Pro. In reality, though, it has more than enough features to render its expensive brother sort of irrelevant. Despite being equipped with less flash memory, the Evo scored almost as well …
I didn’t have high expectations of the Toshiba OCZ TR200 Solid-State Drive (SSD) thanks to its modest specs. The drive indeed ended up being one of the slowest SSDs in my formal tests. But don’t write it off just yet! If you have an aging computer and want to get …
The Samsung 860 Pro solid-state drive (SSD) is the latest update to its flagship 850 Pro, which came out four years ago. The new drive now has the highest capacity and fastest SATA performance and is made to last. There’s a lot to love about it, except one thing: it’s …
