The Best External Hard Drives and Portable SSDs of 2019 By Matt Safford, Sean Webster These external drives offer the best balance of performance, features and price.
Plugable Thunderbolt 3 NVMe External SSD Review: Extreme Speed, Lower Price By Sean Webster Plugable's Thunderbolt 3 drive now ships in capacities up to 2TB, at a price that easily undercuts the competition.
Seagate Announces Thunderbolt 3 Gaming Dock and New FireCuda SSDs By Sean Webster Seagate backs up a truckload of flash, and introduces a gaming dock, too.
Chinese SSD Manufacturer Races Forward to PCIe 5.0 By Zhiye Liu The HC9001 is the first Chinese home-bred PCIe 5.0 controller.
Team Group T-Force Vulcan SATA SSD Review: Flashy, Fast and Affordable By Sean Webster The Vulcan is a highly logical choice for a speedy, pretty budget boot drive.
$500 Extra for an SSD? How to Avoid Price Gouging When You Buy a PC By Avram Piltch PC vendors are charging ridiculous amounts when you try to add more RAM or storage at purchase.
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.
Aorus’ New PCIe 4 SSD Gobbles Up 16 Lanes of PCIe, Might Make Your GPU Jealous By Niels Broekhuijsen The Aorus Gen4 AIC SSD 8TB is a PCIe add-in-card that houses four 2TB PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe SSDs.
Crucial Expands BX500 SSD to 2TB By Zhiye Liu The Crucial BX500 SSD, which previously topped out at 1TB, is now available in the 2TB capacity.
How to Get the Best SSD Deal By Matt Safford Can you tell a good deal from a dud when shopping for an SSD? Here are a few tips to help.
WD Launches New Red SSDs for NAS, 14TB Red HDDs By Sean Webster WD bulks up its storage offerings for NAS users.
Micron Finally Rolls 3D XPoint SSD: X100 Billed as 'World's Fastest' with 2.5 Million IOPS and 9 GBps By Paul Alcorn Micron claims to have taken the performance crown from Intel's Optane.
Micron Expands Enterprise SSD Lineup To 7300 & 5300 Series By Niels Broekhuijsen If you're a home user or gamer, these are not for you. If you're managing an enterprise system, however...
How to Buy the Right SSD: A Guide for 2019 By Matt Safford Upgrading a platter hard drive to an SSD is one of the greatest (and cheapest PC) upgrades you can make. Here's a guide to help you buy an SSD.
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.
Flash Memory Wear Killing Older Tesla's Due to Excessive Data Logging: Report By Niels Broekhuijsen Flash memory wear due to excessive data logging appears to be killing older Tesla's, and it only seems to be a matter of time until the new ones die, too.
One Year Later: Intel Adds Heatsink To M.2 Optane 905P SSD By Niels Broekhuijsen Intel adds a heatsink to its speedy Optane 905P SSDs.
Microsoft’s New Surfaces Use Toshiba’s Tiny BG4 SSD By Matt Safford Early units of Microsoft’s new Surface devices sport tiny 2230 SSDs from Toshiba and SK Hynix. But it’s not clear yet which you’ll get.
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.
