New Windows 10 feature alerts users if their SSD is about to fail
Storage Performance Roundup: Mechanical Disk Drives to PCIe 4.0 SSDs and Everything In Between
Computer storage has come a long way since our last roundup. We have new PCIe 4.0 SSDs, NVMe drives are becoming the de facto standard for new machines, and prices for legacy drives have plummeted. Rather than just focusing on high-end drives, this time we decided to take a step back and explore the entire storage market from top to bottom.
Sabrent's Rocket PCIe 4.0 SSD is now available to buy, offering 5GB/s speeds at $230
Western Digital announces the 'Blue SN500,' a budget-friendly NVMe SSD
Corsair releases its fastest SSDs to date, and they're surprisingly cheap
Gigabyte adds NVMe M.2 SSDs to its storage offerings
NVMe SSD Roundup 2018: Intel Optane, WD Black and Samsung 970 Evo/Pro
The SSD market can seem overwhelming at first glance, but we'll tell you, it is a great time to upgrade your storage considering ever-lower prices and two distinct segments that go from fast and relatively affordable to extremely fast and more costly solutions, which we're looking at today: NVMe solid storage.
Samsung introduces the 970 Pro and 970 Evo series NVMe SSDs
Western Digital launches NVMe SSDs for IoT and Fast Data applications
Corsair Neutron NX500 400GB Review
The Neutron Series NX500 is Corsair's latest entry into the high performance SSD arena, comes in 400GB or 800GB capacities, both using the half-height half-length form factor. So how does it fare?
Storage Real-World Performance: NVMe vs. SATA vs. HDD
To test and visualize how storage performance impacts the user experience in real world scenarios we recorded how quickly our Core i7-6700K test system completes various tasks using Samsung's new 960 Evo 500GB SSD, then compared against the value-minded Crucial MX300 and the WD Red Pro 4TB mechanical hard drive.
Intel SSD 750 SSD Review: PCIe storage for the consumer market
Designed for enthusiasts and workstations, the key feature of Intel's SSD 750 Series is its adoption of Non-Volatile Memory Express or NVMe, bringing multiple queues and lower latency with a direct path from the storage to the CPU. The drive is rated to deliver sequential read performance of up to 2.4GB/s with sequential writes hitting 1.2GB/s.