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Zak Killian - Sat, Jul 05, 2025
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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Paul Lilly - Thu, Jul 03, 2025
Transcend is trotting out a new top-of-the-line solid state drive (SSD) with some impressive speed metrics, at least on paper (we haven't spent any hands-on time with it yet), and it's probably deserving of a more exciting name. As it...
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Marco Chiappetta - Tue, Jul 01, 2025
Crucial T710 SSD - MSRP Starting @ $179 (1TB), $279 (2TB) Crucial is back at it with its latest high-performance, PCIe Gen 5 SSD, the T710, and it's the company's fastest NVMe M.2 drive to date. Excellent Performance Fast Game Level Loads Relatively Low Power Sold With Or Without Heatsink...
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Zak Killian - Sat, Jun 28, 2025
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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Zak Killian - Thu, Jun 26, 2025
The concept of a full hard drive might become a thing of the past sooner than you think. In a massive leap forward for data storage, scientists have developed a new type of molecular magnet that could pave the way for hard drives with a...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Jun 24, 2025
One of the most sought-after storage cards for Switch 2 owners is back in stock, though who knows for how long. What makes this model so desirable is that microSD Express are, for the time being, comparatively expensive to non-Express...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Jun 19, 2025
Kioxia is demonstrating some prototype storage solutions built around its 8th generation BiCS Flash memory featuring CBA (CMOS directly Bonded to Array) technology, which the company is billing as a breakthrough architecture for data...
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Zak Killian - Fri, Jun 13, 2025
The Nintendo Switch used regular old MicroSD cards for storage expansion. This was possible because it was a slower machine, and there are plenty of MicroSD cards out there (particularly those with "A2" rating) which could satisfy the...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Jun 13, 2025
PNY is expanding its portable storage lineup with its new Duo Link V3, a blazing-fast flash drive that you can plug into both USB Type-A and USB Type-C ports. All you have to do is swivel the connector port to select whichever USB...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Jun 03, 2025
Microsoft is making a pitch to buy a new PC before Windows 10's support lifecycle expires, and ASUS is echoing the same sentiment. But what if all you really need to give your PC a jolt is some fast, new storage? Then you're in luck...
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Marco Chiappetta - Thu, May 29, 2025
Genshin Impact Limited Edition External SSD: MSRP $139 Seagate's limited edition Genshin Impact themed external SSD, offers a healthy 1TB of storage and speedy transfer speeds approaching 1GB/s. Slim And Lightweight Stylized Chassis...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, May 20, 2025
There's been a lot of hardware (and software) announced at this year's Computex event, not all of which is focused on AI and/or new graphics cards. Case in point, Micron expanded its solid state drive (SSD) storage family with a couple of...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, May 20, 2025
Every hardware and software outfit right now is like, 'You get AI, you get AI, you get AI...everyone gets AI!'. There are product segments where an AI infusion makes a lot of sense, though, and Phison sees fast solid state drive (SSD)...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, May 19, 2025
First things first—congrats to any of you who managed to preorder a Nintendo Switch 2 console ahead of its imminent retail release. For anyone who missed out, you'll get another chance on launch day, or even the night before with Best Buy...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, May 13, 2025
SanDisk is laying claim to the fastest PCIe Gen 5.0 solid state drives on the planet (in the consumer realm, presumably) with its new WD_Black SN8100 series, the same one that made an early appearance on Amazon ahead of the official...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, May 12, 2025
Kingston just rolled out a new flagship solid state drive (SSD) and, at least on paper, it's an absolute scorcher. Called the Fury Renegade G5, it's a follow-up model to the original Fury Renegade, but with rated read and write speeds that...
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Bruno Ferreira - Mon, Apr 21, 2025
Bad news for prospective Synology NAS buyers -- the company is now making its drives de facto mandatory for Plus-series NAS boxes launched in 2025 and onwards. Citing compatibility issues, drive reliability, and ease of support as reasons...
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Victor Awogbemila - Tue, Apr 15, 2025
Only a few years ago, we had Android phones with a modest amount of internal storage, and loading apps was painful at best. Google seems to understand that low storage capacity ruins the Android user experience. Hence, the company has...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Mar 20, 2025
If you're building a new, no-compromise (or low-compromise) gaming PC, a great place to start for primary storage is Crucial's T705. When we reviewed it last month, we called it the "fastest SSD for gamers and creators" thanks to its...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Mar 19, 2025
Towards the latter part of last month, Samsung reinserted itself into the flagship solid state drive (SSD) space with the introduction of its 9100 Pro series to supplant its still-awesome 990 Pro as its fastest consumer drive line. Now...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Feb 26, 2025
Samsung is rolling out a new flagship solid state drive (SSD) series, the 9100 Pro, to replace the excellent 990 Pro at the top of its consumer storage totem pole. Part of what makes it Samsung's fastest SSD series to date is that it's the...
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Paul Lilly - Sun, Feb 23, 2025
Hey, is that a portable solid state drive (SSD) in your pocket or are you just happy to have saved some money? The answer can be both if you take advantage of our roundup of external storage deals. We found some great discounts on portable...
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