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TeamGroup Industrial has just rolled out its latest industrial-grade SSD, the P250Q, and it's packing more than just high performance. The standout feature? A built-in self-destruct mechanism designed to wipe data completely and...
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Today we have a bit different of a deals post for you. Rather than focusing on budget-priced 'good enough' hardware, we've got some seriously speedy storage on sale. PCI Express 5.0 SSDs offer transfer rates as high as 14.8 GB/second when...
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Micron's newly announced 2600 series of NVMe SSDs is a set of PCIe Gen4 drives the company says delivers TLC-like performance while retaining the cost efficiency of QLC NAND. The key to that claim? A new in-house caching approach dubbed...
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We're venturing into territory of unprecedented consumer storage speeds as solid state drive (SSD) makers push the limits of the PCI Express 5.0 bus. The biggest challenge is keeping temps in check (though that's not the only challenge)...
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Hopefully everyone reading this had a wonderful Christmas, and if you managed to unwrap a PlayStation 5 or PlayStation 5 Pro game console from the jolly old fellow dressed in a big red outfit, then it was surely a happy holiday indeed! The...
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PNY is looking to shatter the notion that buying a cutting-edge solid state drive (SSD) that leverages the PCI Express 5.0 bus has to be an expensive proposition. Proving otherwise is the company's new CS2150 series that starts at $99.99...
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You may recall that we stopped by Lenovo's booth at IFA Berlin earlier this year and sneaked a peek at some of its upcoming ThinkPad and Yoga laptops. One of those models—the ThinkPad Carbon X1 Aura Edition—has launched in China, and one...
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You remember yesterday, when we wrote about Micron's new 6550 ION SSD and how it wasn't exactly the biggest SSD we'd seen? Well, that was yesterday. Today, Solidigm is announcing a new model in the D5-P5336 SSD family with a whopping...
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MSI Datamag 20Gbps Portable SSD: Pricing TBA MSI's first external SSD offers NVMe-like performance in a compact and attractive aluminum chassis. Solid USB SSD Performance Unique Magnetic Mounting Options Durable Aluminum Chassis 5 Year...
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We would hope that dropping a solid state drive (SSD) wouldn't destroy it, even on a hard surface like tile or concrete, not unless you also happen to step on it immediately after it hits the ground. Nevertheless, ASUS is offering up...
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Kioxia is launching another round of zippy solid state drives for the data center that leverage the PCI Express 5.0 bus, and namely the XD8 series. While you won't find these being offered for consumer desktops or laptops—the come in the...
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We've heard isolated reports of Socket AM5 systems struggling with fast NVMe storage, but apparently the issue comes down to more than just a few incidents. We say that because of a statement from memory vendor Crucial's support team that...
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It's Friday, friends! Did you just get paid today, and do you have a pocket full of change? Time to splurge on some PC parts! Not that pocket change will get you very far, really, but it'll get you further today than it would last week...
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Lexar has launched a new solid state drive (SSD) in a single 4TB capacity (for now) and make no mistake, it's taking direct aim on PlayStation 5 owners. Called the Lexar Play, the full-sized M.2 2280 form factor SSD exceeds the...
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Kids these days are too young to remember when solid state drive (SSD) storage cost an arm and a leg, essentially making it a luxury purchase for power users while everyone else was still saddled with a mechanical hard disk drive (HDD)...
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Storage solutions that tap into the PCI Express 5.0 bus are relatively few and far between (compared to PCIe 4.0 and 3.0 drives), but are starting to ramp up. The newest entry into the high-speed Gen 5 category comes from Micron with the...
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It was not that long ago when we reviewed Adata's Legend 970 SSD, an active-cooled and speedy PCI Express 5.0 drive with rated sequential speeds of up to 10,000MB/s (10GB/s) for both reads and writes, and up to 1.4 million IOPS of 4K...
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Micron has just added a new M.2 2230 solid state drive (SSD) under its Crucial brand, saying that it's the "industry's fastest 2230 Gen4 consumer SSD," but is it really? I did a double take when reading that statement as the rated...
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ADATA SD810 SSD: Starting at $89.99 (1TB), up to $149.99 (2TB) The ADATA SD810 is a no-frills portable SSD with a tough titanium chassis, fast USB 20 Gbps connectivity, and IP68 ingress protection. Excellent USB SSD Performance IP68 Ingress Protection 5 Year Warranty No Software Required A...
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If you want a PCIe 5.0 SSD right now, your options are basically limited to drives based on Phison's potent E26 controller. We like Phison around here, but from a consumer perspective, it's always good to have competition. That's why we're...
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Here's a fun fact: Dodge's last Viper SRT packed up to 645 horsepower with a top speed of a exceeding 200 miles per hour. We're not sure if Patriot Memory's Viper PV553 solid state drive (SSD) is an homage to the muscle car that Dodge...
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Samsung officially announced its 990 EVO PCIe 4.0 and PCIe 5.0 SSDs today, after it was leaked earlier this month when it was accidentally listed on Samsung's own website. The 990 EVO is technically Samsung's first PCIe 5.0 SSD, though it...
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