Maximize your SSD’s performance with these 6 easy tweaks
SSDs are now the most common type of hard drive in both laptops and desktop PCs. They’re compact, they’re quite, and they outperform traditional hard drives by a mile — but they also tend to…
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Massive 8TB SD cards, 16TB portable SSDs are right around the corner
The other day, I sent my dad—who’s old enough to remember programming computers with punch cards—a photo of a two-terabyte M.2 drive. He replied: “The first Burroughs 5700 mainframe I worked on had a two-megabyte…
Why two SSDs are better than one in your Windows PC
If you’re looking to speed up your PC, you should consider using two SSDs instead of one. One way to do this is to configure the two drives in a RAID 0 array. This allows…
How we test internal SSDs at PCWorld
We’ve tested a lot of internal SSDs over the last decade or so, and the improvement to the technology has been astounding. The ongoing advancements in SSDs keep us on our toes and our testing…
Corsair MP700 Pro SE review: One of the best PCIe 5.0 SSDs
At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros As fast as you’ll find Available in up to 4TB Optional heatsink/cooler Our Verdict The Corsair MP700 Pro SE came within a whisker of capturing the NVMe SSD performance…
Pick up one of our favorite portable SSDs for $50
If you’re looking for a huge amount of portable storage, which you can copy to and from at high speeds, Amazon has a 500GB Crucial X6 portable drive on sale for just $49.99 today. That’s…
Adios cheap SSDs? WD, Seagate warn that PC storage prices are going up
If you’re in the market for a hard drive or SSD, act fast! Otherwise, you could be paying more than you’d like. According to Taiwan analyst company TrendForce, storage makers Western Digital and now Seagate…
Early PCIe 7.0 specs foretell a ludicrously fast future for SSDs
Are you ready for PCIe version 6.0? No? Your motherboard doesn’t even have PCIe 5.0 yet, because you’re squeezing every last possible ounce of value out of AM4? Well too bad, because PCie 7.0 is…
Best PCIe 4.0 SSDs 2024: Up your storage game
Most computers and storage drives still use the common SATA or PCIe 3.0 interfaces to sling your bits of data around, but if you’re lucky enough to own a relatively modern PC, you might be…
Best SSDs of 2024: Reviews and recommendations
Switching to a solid-state drive is the best upgrade you can make for your PC. These wondrous devices speed up boot times, improve the responsiveness of your programs and games, and generally make your computer…
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