When shopping for an SSD it’s important to know which form-factor fits your system. SSDs come in a bunch of shapes and sizes.

The humble storage device. It has been around in one form or another since the start of computing. I still remember using 8″ floppy disks back in junior high school. Storage devices have evolved ...

Our first look at 80Gbps USB4 reveals speed to spare, especially with long file transfers. Think of it as Thunderbolt 5 that ...

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Samsung has finally introduced a 980 SSD that isn't part of the high-priced Pro line, and it's mostly good news for performance-minded PC users — with a caveat. The company's new base level 980 NVMe ...

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At a glance Expert's Rating Pros ・Provides up to four full-speed PCIe 5.0 NVMe M.2 slots ・Fantastically affordable ・Auxiliary power connector and fan control header ・Very good performance Cons ...

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Do you need a cooler for your M.2 NVMe SSD? The short answer is yes, unless your SSD is operating within its defined ...

“Samsung has led the NVMe SSD industry since its inception, and the company continues to define the latest standards of consumer storage with unprecedented performance of the 970 PRO and EVO SSDs,” ...

The Samsung SM961 NVMe SSD was all the rage circa 2017 but the system builder drives have reached end of life, and unsold OEM stock is available at 2019 prices. The SM961 is one of the last 2-bit per ...

M.2/PCIe NVMe SSDs are now affordable thanks to Samsung’s 950 Pro. Why is that important? Because 2GBps sustained sequential reading and 1.5GBps writing makes a SATA SSD seem like it’s standing still.