Samsung 960 Pro 512GB Review – Samsung’s 850 series has long been a popular choice in SSDs and comes in a 2.5in hard drive-sized format to plug into the SATA connectors found in most desktop PCs. When the 950 arrived last year, it was more of a niche product, using the stripped-down M.2 format – … Read more
Samsung 970 Evo SSD Review – Maxing out PCI express bandwidth is Jarred Walton’s crowning glory. Size: 1TB Int.: M.2 Bus: NVMe 1.3 PCIe 3.0 x4 Logic: Phoenix • Type: 64-layer 3D TLC Cache: 42GB Seq.: 3.400/ 2.500MB/S (r/w) IOPS: 500K/450K (r/w) Power: 6W/30mW (active/idle) Life: 600TB Warranty: Five years Samsung is one of the biggest … Read more
More and more laptops now come with SSDs rather than traditional hard drives, giving faster reading and writing speeds but less capacity. It’s also simple to add an SSD to a desktop PC, either as a 2.Sin SATA drive or as a bare module to plug into the increasingly common M.2 interface. If you want … Read more
Reports of 6Gbps SATA SSDs’ death have been greatly exaggerated. If Mark Twain could’ve been a power user, we like to think he would’ve admonished his fellow enthusiasts (ourselves included) over the countless prematurely penned obituaries for solid-state drives that use the 6Gbps SATA bus. After all, SATA is old but not extinct. In fact, … Read more
Affordable external SSD Installing an SSD (solid-state drive) inside your PC, and making it the drive Window’s starts up from, is a very effective way to reduce loading times for games and software, and make your system feel faster in daily use. But if you don’t fancy undertaking an internal upgrade, the USB 3.0 (and … Read more
Kingston’s UV400 is the cheapest drive on test, with this 480GB model available at the time of writing. It is, however, a brand-new drive that’s only arrived in the past few months, so it’s not just old tech being sold off at discount. Instead, it uses Toshiba’s latest 15nm 2D planar TLC NAND coupled with … Read more
Michael Topham reviews a pocketable hard drive NO LONGER than a credit card and no thicker than a matchbox, Samsung’s Portable SSD T3 is an incredibly compact and lightweight portable solid-state drive. Unlike portable hard disk drives (HDDs), which are cheaper and made up of moving parts that can be prone to damage or failure, … Read more
INTEL’S NEW 730 Series of enthusiast-class SSDs come emblazoned with the image of a skull, but they don’t fully live up to a killer image. The company shipped a pair of 480GB drives to us so we could benchmark them striped as a single volume in RAID 0, which is how a PC enthusiast might … Read more