Short for solid-state drive, SSD is the type of storage device that deliver fast performance for your computers or mobile devices.
As an answer to Western Digital’s recent move to increase portable SSD capacities to 4TB across the board earlier this year, Micron today announced a significant upgrade of its own. New Crucial X6: Faster speed, double the storage space Indeed, the company unveiled a new version of the Crucial X6 …
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 …
Suppose you have been holding up on getting one of those portable SSDs from Western Digital because it just doesn’t have enough storage. Well, no more excuses. The storage vendors today announced at CES 2021 the 4TB versions across the board. A fist full of terabytes That’s right. Virtually all …
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, …
The recently released Samsung 980 PRO will soon be no longer the only hot kid on the PCIe 4.0 block. Indeed, Western Digital today announced, among other things, its own NVMe solid-state drive (SSD) of the same next-gen PCIe standard, the WD_BLACK SN850. The WD_BLACK is a relatively new product …
Western Digital today announced two new portable SSDs as major upgrades to the previous versions, the SanDisk Extreme and SanDisk Extreme PRO. Respectively, these two are the next versions of the 2018 SanDisk Extreme and 2019 SanDisk Extreme PRO. Similar design, double the speeds Due to the unchanged names and …
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 …
