Tag: SSDs

ADATA SD810 portable SSD review

ADATA SD810 portable SSD…

It pleases me to say we're firmly planted in a new era for external SSDs. For the longest time,…
Samsung’s just started producing what is effectively its first proper PCIe 5

Samsung’s just started producing…

PCIe 5.0 SSDs haven't quite taken off yet, especially for PC gaming. But the winds might soon change as…
Want a 4 TB external SSD with solid state cooling, passkey unlocking, wireless tracking, RAID 6, and a built-in e-paper display? Yours for—squints at the screen—the price of TWO PlayStation 5 Pros

Want a 4 TB…

External storage drives are things that you either hardly ever use or they're a daily part of your tech…
Final Fantasy 16, Black Myth: Wukong and Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade all require over 100 GB, so I thought you might like this 2 TB SSD for $140

Final Fantasy 16, Black…

Nextorage G-LE | 2 TB | NVMe | PCIe 4.0 | 7,400 MB/s read | 6,400 MB/s write |…
Micron touts world’s first PCIe Gen 6 drive with epic 26 GB/s speeds but it’s not hitting your PC for years

Micron touts world’s first…

Micron, they of Crucial SSD fame, have announced a new PCIe Gen 6 SSD capable of 26 GB/s. That's…
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best SSD of 2025

PC Gamer Hardware Awards:…

Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer…
This neat Windows registry trick boosts NVMe SSD performance up to 80% but it’s only officially available for enterprise users

This neat Windows registry…

Users have discovered a registry tweak that can improve NVMe SSD performance on Windows 11, namely those all-important random…
It’s been a frustrating 18 months since launch but we’ll finally be getting PCIe 5 SSDs worth a damn this year

It’s been a frustrating…

Good news everyone, the only PCIe 5.0 SSD controller that currently makes any damned sense is starting to ship…
Team Group showed me some blazingly fast Gen 5 SSDs, pink DDR5, and a host of wacky cooling solutions to keep it all in check

Team Group showed me…

I'm sometimes asked why we don't often recommend Gen 5 NVMe drives (although, to be fair, we do recommend…
Intel’s efforts to develop a PCIe throttling driver point towards a very hot Gen 6 future

Intel’s efforts to develop…

My biggest gripe with current PCs is excessive power consumption. Second to that is the heat generated by NVMe…