Tag: SSD

May 25, 2021

Cloud services have become part of everyone’s life. You might not realise it, but even if you open a PowerPoint presentation which was sent to you via email (or Dropbox), you’ve used the cloud. While the cloud may make external […]

April 13, 2021

Five months after its initial release, the PlayStation 5 is getting its first major update. Sony outlined the details in a recent blog post, and includes updates to storage options and more social and personalization control. Probably the most welcome […]

February 16, 2021

According to data storage research and consulting firm TrendFocus (per Storage Newsletter), manufacturers shipped 333.12 million solid-state drives in 2020 – an increase of 20.8 percent year-over-year. Hard drive shipments, meanwhile, were down 18 percent annually to 259.81 million units. […]

October 6, 2020

It’s almost a decade since the NVM Express Workgroup released the first version of the NVMe standard. Since then, the technology has become an increasingly common interface for solid state storage. But, on its own NVMe is somewhat limited because […]

June 19, 2020

Flash storage is increasingly important to the enterprise market, and analysts expect solid state storage to largely replace spinning disks for enterprise systems, endpoints and consumer devices – possibly within this decade. Meanwhile, some predict spinning disk will be used […]

December 16, 2019

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 […]

September 19, 2019

Samsung’s PM1733 and PM1735 series come in 19 different models covering the HHHL (card-type) and 2.5-inch U.2 formats. Designed for use in servers and data centers, their storage ranges from 0.8TB right up to a massive 30.72TB. There has been […]

August 6, 2019

Samsung is promising that its 6th-generation V-NAND solid-state drives reach new heights in terms of speedy SSDs. The company already has one such 250GB SATA SSD going into mass production, with its 6th-gen 3D V-NAND stepping up to 100+ layers […]

July 10, 2019

The words ‘cheapest’ and ‘bargain’ are not usually associated with high-end, enterprise storage solid state drives, and yet the Seagate Nytro is just that. It is the cheapest big SSD you can buy right now at just over $400 (from […]

June 12, 2019

Welcome to TechRadar’s guide of the best portable SSDs on the market right now. We’re going to dive into all the most dependable portable SSDs that combine speed, capacity and mobility to ensure that you can safely keep all your […]

February 8, 2019

Welcome to our SSD vs HDD guide, where we’ll look at the pros and cons of traditional hard drives (HDD) and solid state drives (SSD) to help you choose which one is the best for your needs. When you’re looking […]

November 27, 2018

It’s finally happening. Samsung is aiming to make solid-state drives as affordable as hard drives with its latest line of 860 QVO SSDs. The Samsung 1TB 860 QVO SSD will only cost $149 (about £120, AU$210), which makes the price […]

November 16, 2018

The best hard drives aren’t as fast as the best SSDs, but they’re definitely more affordable. Plus, the best hard drives come with huge amounts of space at a lower price, rather than costing a fortune for a glorified flash […]

July 25, 2018

If you were mulling an upgrade to your GPU, and perhaps an SSD into the bargain to really pep up your PC, then Nvidia has a deal bundling some GeForce GTX 1050 and 1060 graphics cards with a free Kingston […]

July 17, 2018

Last week Seagate Technologies announced their latest SSD, simple named BarraCuda SSD. The naming follows in line with the rest of the company’s Guardian Series of drives and naming scheme. The BarraCuda SSD will serve as a drop in HDD […]

June 25, 2018

BIOSTAR unveils its newest solid-state drive featuring 3D TLC NAND flash – the M500 M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD. The BIOSTAR M500 uses the compact M.2 2280 form factor that is compatible with latest-generation motherboards, laptops, and mini PCs. It supports […]

June 20, 2018

Is your Windows PC running a little slowly? It’s not your imagination: over time hard drives accumulate all kinds of things that slow things down. PC optimization software can’t solve obsolescence – if your computer is struggling to meet the […]

June 15, 2018

Beijing Memblaze Technology Co., Ltd. released PBlaze5 910/916 and low-power 510/516 series NVMe SSD. They adopt the 64-layer enterprise 3D NAND and support NVMe standard protocol with a user capacity up to 15.36TB. The PBlaze5 910/916 series NVMe SSD features […]

June 14, 2018

Toshiba is looking to enter the mainstream end-user NVMe stage with the OCZ RC100 Series SSD. Launching at a competitive price point, the RC100 is designed for those looking to upgrade their rigs to the much faster NVMe technology, fitting […]

May 4, 2017

SSDs operate the fastest when inside a computer. Micron’s new SolidScale storage system uproots SSDs from servers and pushes them into discrete boxes while reducing latency. SolidScale is a top-of-the-rack storage system that will house many SSDs. It will connect […]