SSD Drives

At IFA this week, LEO had the chance to check out all of the latest hard drives and SSDs coming from both Western Digital and SanDisk. There are a bunch of external ‘Game Drives' aimed at consoles in capacities up to 8TB, in addition to a new WD Black NVMe …

Back in July, Toshiba Memory Corp announced plans to kick off a new era for the company under a new name. Part of this new era will include some expansion, as Toshiba Memory is acquiring Lite-On Technology's SSD business in a deal worth $165 million. The agreement will see Toshiba …

It's a 240GB SSD, but it's meant for use in a NAS, not a regular desktop

The KC2000 uses the latest Toshiba 96-layer NAND in combination with Silicon Motion's newest SM2262EN controller.

While we were at Computex earlier this year, we heard rumblings from a few sources that the current batch of super-fast PCIe 4.0 SSDs were just the beginning. We were told at the time that a next-gen Phison SSD controller was already in the works, which would push speeds beyond …

It's an external SSD that can withstand a surprising amount of force

Amazon Prime Day has officially kicked off today and there are already some excellent deals starting to show up. If you are looking for a PC gaming upgrade, then today would be a good day to start shopping around. In this post, we break down the best SSDs currently discounted, …

It's a 512GB NVMe SSD, with RGB lighting, for under £100 - is it any good?

We are starting to get a better idea of what launch pricing will be for the upcoming slate of 1TB and 2TB PCIe 4.0 SSDs. Earlier this week, we learned that Corsair will be launching its 1TB drive at the $249.99 mark and now, it looks like the Gigabyte Aorus …

We know that AMD’s 3rd Gen Ryzen processors are on the verge of release, accompanied by the new x570 motherboard chipset. This jump will pave the way for PCI-Express 4.0 and new hardware that takes advantage of the increased speed and bandwidth. The first PCIe 4.0 upgrades we will be seeing …

Should you even be considering this Intel drive in 2019?

It's a 1TB SSD from PNY, priced at around the £130 mark - worth picking up?

It is heavier, its cooler but its a fair bit more expensive too

After AMD's big announcements at the start of the week, a lot of focus at Computex 2019 has been on X570 motherboards and PCIe 4.0. Patriot is another brand who is releasing a new SSD to take advantage of PCIe 4.0, and we also saw a new gaming headset from …

This week to kick off Computex, AMD officially launched its 3rd Gen Ryzen processors and X570 motherboard chipset. Now, we are starting to see new X570 motherboards come down the pipeline, with Gigabyte AORUS announcing five of its own models, as well as a PCIe 4.0 SSD with blistering fast …

Now that AMD's 3rd Gen Ryzen processors are officially here, accompanied by the new x570 motherboard chipset, the PCIe 4.0 generation can get started. During AMD's keynote this morning, we heard about a few SSD makers planning to make the jump to PCIe 4.0 and now it looks like CORSAIR …

It's an entry-level NVMe SSD that can be found for under £70 - has WD nailed it?

We are still a while off from the launch of Sony's next-gen PlayStation but we already began hearing about the console's hardware specs back in April. At the time, Sony's lead architect on the PS5, Mark Cerny, talked up the console's SSD capabilities but some of it was difficult to …

SSD adoption is on the rise and prices are set to fall, particularly for high-capacity drives.

The age of the traditional Hard Disk Drive has slowly been coming to an end over the years as SSD sales have risen and prices have dropped down. Here in Europe, the shift is more apparent than ever, with new statistics showing significant growth for SSD-based systems compared to one …

Patriot's latest SSD comes with a massive heatsink installed - but is the drive actually any good?

It's the first Samsung SSD to use QLC NAND - but is it any good?

The Gigabyte Aorus lineup has been expanding over the last couple of years. In 2019, we'll be seeing the addition of two brand new Aorus PCIe SSDs, offering speeds leaps and bounds ahead of a traditional SATA drive. The Aorus RGB AIC NVMe 512GB and 1TB models both use the …

Lexar is gunning for the title of fastest 1TB portable SSD in the world with its newly unveiled SL100 Pro series. There is next to nothing on the market that can rival the theoretical read speeds up to 950MB/s and write speeds up to 900MB/s, but the SL100 Pro series …

Back at CES, we had the chance to catch up with Patriot and its subsidiary, VIPER Gaming. While we were roaming the booth, we caught a sneak peek at the Viper VPN100, a new NVMe PCIe Gen 3 SSD with capacities between 256GB and 2TB. Now, just a couple of …

It's an update to the hugely popular 970 Evo - is it worth buying?

It's a 1TB unit from WD, but is it a worthy upgrade from the old Black drive?

It's just an OEM drive at present - but could this give us a glimpse at Toshiba's next consumer SSD?

It's another SSD using Intel 3D XPoint memory - is it worth £535 though?

It's only 750GB - but it will set you back over £2250