Short for solid-state drive, SSD is the type of storage device that deliver fast performance for your computers or mobile devices.
Here’s some excellent news for PCIe Gen4 lovers. Today, Micron released the Crucial T500 4TB version to complete its venerable NVMe SSD. If you remember, the internal drive was released after the T700, which is a PCIe Gen5 drive with extreme heat issues but offers up to 4TB of storage …
Micron’s latest PCIe 4 NVMe SSD, the Crucial P310 PCIe Gen4 NVMe 2230 M.2 SSD, first released on July 17, 2024, is a bit different from the previous version, the P3 and P3 Plus that came out two years ago. Coming in the compact 2230 M.2 form—the drive is only …
The headline says it. Western Digital’s new SanDisk Desk Drive, unveiled back on May 7, is highly compact for a desktop storage device. But if you look at it from a portable drive point of view, it can be bulky. There’s one thing that can’t be disputed: it’s one of …
When announcing the WD Blue SN5000 on Jun 18, 2024, Western Digital tried hard to make it special. The storage vendor claimed that the new drive was designed to be “strategically aligned to Stages 4 and 6 of the AI Data Cycle to equip users with advanced performance-driven storage solutions …
If you’re looking to carry a lot of data on a little storage device, there’s some exciting news about Samsung thumb drives. Today, the company announced the new versions of its USB flash portable storage, the BAR Plus, and FIT Plus, with 512GB in capacity, or double the previous version’s …
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 fastest NVMe SSD …
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 for the most part. …
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 …
At first glance, the Synology BeeDrive portable SSD, first announced in May 2023, is an odd device. It has nothing to do with what Synology has been known for, a NAS maker. But after spending my sweet time with it, I realize it’s a perfect device for those needing a …
