Tag: storage

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…
‘We have won the war on floppy disks!’ Japan finally declares independence from floppy media

‘We have won the…

Japan has now officially “won the war on floppy disks”, having finally scrapped the many regulations governing their use…
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…
SSD prices could steady or even drop as NAND chip makers boost production

SSD prices could steady…

After repeatedly gloomy news about SSD pricing, there's light at the end of the tunnel. South Korean outlet Chosun…
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…