How long a flash drive or other SSD will last depends heavily on the quality of the flash storage inside of it, as well as the build quality of the housing, circuitry, and connector.

SSDs are definitely faster than hard drives of the past, but why and how does that matter? Do different SSD speeds matter? Let's take a look.

Samsung says the biggest versions of its new PCIe Gen 5 drive can hit 14,800 MB/s sequential write speeds. Just make room in your budget because they don't come cheap.