Shane Downing

WD Blue Electric Boogaloo

More capacity, but not more performance.

The Seagate FireCuda 540 is another PCIe 5.0 SSD clawing its way into the space, setting itself apart with an excellent warranty and a focus on reliability. It’s fast, but inefficient and expensive.

Seagate delivers a meat and potatoes desktop hard drive

The Seagate BarraCuda is a slow but inexpensive hard drive that suffers from its use of SMR technology. It’s good for specific use cases but should be avoided for high-performance applications.

We review the 14TB Seagate IronWolf Pro, an HDD built for NAS that also serves well in other roles given its performance and pricing.

Back to Basics.

An old drive strikes back with Star Wars-themed ARGB.

Western Digital’s Red Pro NAS line of high-capacity hard drives (HDDs) utilizes NAND flash with its OptiNAND technology to reach 20TB and beyond. It’s CMR technology without the drawbacks of SMR.

The fastest consumer SSD you can buy is here.

Gigabyte’s take on the first wave of PCIe 5.0 SSDs

The Inland TD510 is the first accessible baseline PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD, and it’s been priced aggressively. This makes it the first chance at getting this type of bandwidth for your desktop.

The Corsair MP600 Core XT is a mid-range PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD with the advantages and drawbacks of QLC. It brings capacity at a lower cost but is limited in performance and TBW.

A better Legend 960, thanks to the heatsink

A good grab if you want a fast 2TB drive with a heatsink

The Addlink S90 Lite is a mediocre budget PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD that’s best bought at 2TB with current pricing. It’s generic on the whole, aside from having weak sustained performance.

The Corsair MP600 Pro LPX is an undistinguished high-end PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD that would work fine in a PlayStation 5 but falls behind its peers in most respects. Get it on sale, if possible.

Another high-end PCIe 4.0 SSD dives into the mix

The Sabrent Rocket 2230 is a relatively fast and efficient PCIe 4.0 SSD that’s available in the M.2 2230 form factor. This makes it uniquely useful for certain devices that require shorter M.2 SSDs.

Good performance and extreme efficiency in one package

Update The Kingston Fury arrives with up to 7 GBps of sequential throughput, making it one of the fastest SSDs on the market, and also comes with more write endurance.

Tiny, 20 Gbps portable SSD with mixed performance