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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 …
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 …
