SSD vs HDD Tested: What’s the Difference and Which Is Better? By Sean Webster Should you buy an HDD or SSD? Here's all you need to know.
The Best External Hard Drives and Portable SSDs of 2019 By Matt Safford, Sean Webster Here are the best external hard drives and SSDs for the money. These drives offer the best balance of performance, features and price.
Best SSDs 2019: From Budget SATA to Blazing NVMe By Sean Webster Based on our extensive lab tests, we recommend the best SSDs for every need and budget.
Lexar NM600 M.2 NVMe SSD Review: Affordable and Efficient By Sean Webster Lexar's latest NVMe drive competes on price, while sipping power and delivering decent performance. Its main drawback is capacity, topping out at just 480GB.
Mushkin Pilot-E M.2 NVMe SSD Review: Taking Flight By Sean Webster Mushkin's new high-end M.2 drive boasts high endurance, fast performance and 256-bit AES encryption. Can it best the plethora of similarly equipped competition?
Adata Ultimate SU750 SATA SSD Review: Not Quite The Ultimate SSD By Sean Webster Adata’s Ultimate SU750 has decent performance for a SATA drive, but it slurps power and competitors give you a lot more for the same price.
Lexar NS200 SATA SSD Review: Plain Jane SATA By Sean Webster Lexar’s NS200 provides solid SATA-level storage performance, but competitors offer slightly better speeds for around the same price.
Updated! Samsung 970 EVO Plus SSD Review: More Layers Brings More Performance By Sean Webster Samsung's new 970 EVO Plus takes on the SSD market with new flash and speeds that reach up to 3.5 GB/s.
Toshiba BG4 M.2 NVMe SSD Review: One Tiny, But Speedy SSD By Sean Webster With performance that is 6 times that of any SATA SSD, yet a footprint that can take up just 16 x 20 mm, the BG4 is a great option for OEM computer integration.
Adata XPG SX6000 Pro M.2 NVMe SSD Review: Paying More for Less By Sean Webster This SSD's DRAMless design is meant to cut costs, but is its performance really worth the money?
Seagate Backup Plus Ultra Touch Portable HDD Review: Secured in Style By Sean Webster Seagate's Ultra Touch Portable hard drive sports a textured, two-tone look and performs as we'd expect. But it's the software that really ads value.
Lexar SL100 Pro Portable SSD Review: Pro Pricing, Semi Performance By Sean Webster Lexar's latest external SSD sports read and write speeds that are about double what you can get from most portables. But is that enough to make up for its high price?
Toshiba Talks 5-Bit-per-Cell Flash, Demos First PCIe 4.0 Enterprise SSDs By Sean Webster Toshiba is working on Penta-Level Cell (PLC) flash that stores five bits per cell.
LaCie Mobile Drive Portable HDD Review: Pretty Portable By Sean Webster LaCie's Mobile Drive is the nicest-looking portable drive available. But unless you want to test drive the included free month of Adobe CC, there are better options.
LaCie 2big RAID 16TB Review: Big on Reliability and Capacity By Sean Webster With spacious capacities and a 10Gb/s USB 3.1 Type-C interface, LaCie’s got a new professional desktop RAID device that is ideal for the creative pro looking to up their storage game.
Maxiotek Shows off New NVMe SSD Controllers By Sean Webster Maxiotech shows off its latest SSD controllers at the Flash Memory Summit 2019.
Phison Brings the PCIe 4.0 Pain: E18-Powered SSDs to hit 7 GBps and One Million IOPS By Sean Webster Phison was the first SSD vendor to bring a blazing-fast PCIe 4.0 SSD to market, but it has a new controller in the works that will hit 7 GB/s and one million IOPS.
Silicon Motion Displays its First PCIe 4.0 SSD Controllers By Sean Webster Now that AMD's Ryzen 3000 series chips have brought support for PCIe 4.0 to the desktop, the race is on for new, faster SSDs.
WD Blue SN500 M.2 NVMe SSD Review: Leaving SATA in the Dust (Updated) By Sean Webster WD's Blue SN500 brings SATA-like pricing to a speedy NVMe SSD.
Crucial P1 NVMe SSD Review: QLC Flash Gone Mild (Updated) By Sean Webster The Crucial P1 breaks the SATA 6Gb/s barrier with its NVMe interface and delivers up to 2/1.7 GB/s of sequential read/write throughput.
Team Group MP34 M.2 NVMe SSD Review: A Killer Value By Sean Webster With very good performance at surprisingly reasonable pricing, plus high endurance, Team Group's MP34 is a very good value-focused NVMe M.2 SSD.
Mushkin Pilot M.2 NVMe SSD Review: Speed on a Budget By Sean Webster Mushkin has an SSD at the speed and capacity to fit almost anyone’s storage needs. And if speed is your need, the NVMe Mushkin Pilot is the drive to choose.
Platform Storage Face-Off: AMD Upsets Intel By Sean Webster We put AMD and Intel systems head-to-head to find out which platform provides the top performance with storage devices.
