Tag: SSDs

Check out your gaming PC’s storage chops with 3DMark’s new DirectStorage benchmark

Check out your gaming…

If you’ve just bought a shiny new gaming PC or an ultra-fast SSD in the Black Friday sales, then…
SK Hynix’s unique way of chopping cells in two is a big step in making PLC flash memory chips viable and could offer a solution to ballooning SSD prices

SK Hynix’s unique way…

Grab any SSD from a gaming PC, and you’ll find that it has one of two types of NAND…
World’s biggest PCIe SSD immediately squashed by even bigger and faster PCIe SSD

World’s biggest PCIe SSD…

It’s a tale as old as time: something big is superseded by something bigger. You take your Blue Eyes…
Micron’s introduced the first PCIe 5 60 TB SSD and it could house 375 Stalker 2 installs, or even better, 35,294 Crab Champions installs

Micron’s introduced the first…

We’ve long recommended ensuring your drive is nice and large so you don’t run out of space given seemingly…
Five things I always tell people before they buy their first SSD

Five things I always…

If you’ve been using an old gaming PC that uses a traditional hard disk for storage, or if you’re…
WD Blue SN5000 4TB NVMe SSD review

WD Blue SN5000 4TB…

4 TB of solid state storage—boy, that’s a lot. Let’s face it, when it comes to file sizes, the…
Samsung 990 Evo Plus 1 TB NVMe SSD review

Samsung 990 Evo Plus…

Few names in the PC gaming industry command quite as much respect as Samsung does with its SSDs. It’s…
Unfortunately, all of that doomsaying last year was correct and SSD prices are surging as a result of the memory crisis

Unfortunately, all of that…

For the last year and a bit, I’ve sat down every Friday morning to update our guide to the…
As Microsoft rolls out its Windows 11 24H2 update, owners of certain Western Digital SSDs have been greeted with constant Blue Screens of Death

As Microsoft rolls out…

Another Windows update, another round of users complaining about crashes and bugs. While hardly news, this time around the…
SanDisk Desk Drive 8 TB external SSD review

SanDisk Desk Drive 8…

The SanDisk Desk Drive isn’t very portable compared to other external SSDs, but then again most other external SSDs…