Samsung today had some exciting news on the solid-state drive (SSD) front. The company announced the availability of the T7 Shield 4TB Portable SSD, which first came out in April 2022 with 1TB and 2TB versions. In many cases, 2TB is plenty for a portable drive, but more is always …
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 …
Like many of you, I woke up today to a dreadful email from Samsung telling its “valued customers” that it had “discovered a cybersecurity incident” that affected our personal information. It’s another data breach. Below is the screenshot of the message I got. My sympathy to anyone who also found …
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 …
If you’ve been thinking of getting the Samsung 980 PRO, one of the first PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs on the market, for your PlayStation 5 (PS5), your time is near. Samsung today announced the new model of the internal drive that comes with a heatsink. Samsung 980 PRO with HeatSink: …
Samsung today announced its upgraded versions of the Samsung PRO Plus and Samsung EVO Plus SD cards and their microSD versions. The new cards are essentially the upgrades to the older versions released October 2020, which I took out for a spin and was impressed with their performances. Samsung PRO …
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 …
