What kind of SSD do you actually need for gaming? Today we'll answer that question through a series of benchmarks. Should you go all out on the latest PCIe 5.0 technology, is PCIe 3.0 still sufficient ...

A tipping point has been reached where USB4 has suddenly become the connection technology for external SSDs, and a flood of ...

Long loading times are one of our biggest issues with current-gen consoles. Games are getting bigger, more complex, with ever-increasing levels of details in art assets - but the fundamental basis of ...

Correlation without causation was the caveat we applied last week to reports that the KB5063878 update for Windows 11 was nuking SSDs and HDDs. Now SSD controller maker Phison has reported back on an ...

Valve’s Steam Deck, which comes out later in February, loads games nippily off an SD card, and in fact there’s hardly any compromise with titles installed on a card compared to the device’s SSD, at ...

Hard drive speeds haven't improved significantly for years, but solid state drives continue to get faster, and Lexar just gave us a glimpse of what to expect from the next generation of SSDs. As ...

The SC680 from Adata lacks any USP other than a budget pricing. There are models out there that offer a far better price/performance so if the former is your main/only concern, we’d advise you to ...

The TeamGroup NV5000 is built in the M.2 Type-2280 "gumstick" form factor, which is common among today's internal SSDs. It ...