SSD

Why it matters: Windows 11 early adopters for months have complained of HDD and SSD slowdowns when using Microsoft’s latest operating system. Updates in December 2021 and January 2022 supposedly addressed the matter, but complaints…

Several Windows 11 users have been reporting slowed NVMe performance on various online forums over the last few months. The problems seem to vary quite a bit as different drives are apparently exhibiting different symptoms. For example,…

TeamGroup today announced a pair of new PCIe 3.0 NVMe SSD solutions under its "Industrial" branding. The new M.2 2280 SSDs (N75A-M80 and N75G-M80) are marketed as having industrial-grade resilience and patented cooling technologies for…

If you've been looking to give your PC or laptop a quick boost of speed and capacity, then this is the deal for you. The WD Blue SN550 NVMe SSD is now at one of its lowest price points on Amazon, going for just £69.97 for the 1TB model.…

What just happened? Seagate showed off a hard disk drive that connects through NVMe at the Open Computing Project (OCP) global summit this week. Limiting a faster PCIe connection to the speeds of a spinning disk drive might be…

Kioxia, the Japanese chipmaker that is currently in talks of a possible merger with WD, recently gave a demonstration of a new ultra-fast SSD, designed for the PCIe 5.0 age. During its presentation at the China Flash Market Summit, the…

Turns out the humble SSD might be useful for more than storing your favourite games. Researchers at Harvard and Samsung have teamed up to see if memory technology, the basis for speedy storage such as SSDs, might also be handy for storing a…

A new Alder Lake benchmark has been posted with a for sale listing, potentially showing Alder Lake running in its new Gear 4 mode. According to @harukaze5719, this latest leak comprised a Core i5-12600K 10-core CPU running the AIDA64 cache…

PNY has launched a pair of SSD lines (LX3030 and LX2030) that are specifically tuned for Chia plotting, resulting in endurance levels that are around 18 times higher (or more) than a typical consumer drive equipped with triple level cell…

Our Verdict Intel Optane SSD DC P5800X is the fastest and most endurant NVMe SSD we’ve ever tested, easily beating any SSD on the market in both performance and endurance. But it’s pricey and has limited capacity, making it a niche…