SSD Drives

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

Intel rate the endurance of the 8TB drive at up to 13.88PBW and back the drive with a 5 year warranty.

It's Crucial's first NVMe SSD, but how does it fare in a competitive market?

SSD's are so competitively priced now, its mad not to own one. Is this Crucial drive worth £70 ?

Samsung is aiming to make high-capacity SATA SSDs cheaper than ever with the new 860 QVO series, which feature new QLC-NAND technology.

This is a heck of a drive with a data endurance rating of 8.76 petabytes!

It's Corsair's latest NVMe drive - at and £229, could this be SSD bargain of the year?

Those that missed out on Amazon’s incredible M.2 SSD deals yesterday have been given another chance. WD is slashing prices across its M.2 and SATA offerings for Black Friday, including its “Must Have” WD Black NVMe M.2. WD Green 240GB 2.5″ 7mm Solid State Drive While WD Green lacks the …

If you have been saving up for a few PC upgrades, then now might be the best time to shop around. Black Friday deals are already starting to do the rounds and Amazon has some pretty great ones for SSDs today, including a 1TB Samsung 970 M.2 drive for just …

An SSD, with RGB lighting - whats next?!

The X5, is one of their fastest external products to date.

NAND Flash prices entered a freefall earlier this year, hitting lows of 50 percent thanks to oversupply. It was initially reported that DRAM would shortly follow, but limitations from the world's top-3 DRAM makers are set to reduce capacity expansions in order to stabilise prices. The drop in NAND Flash …

The HyperX Savage EXO is a slim line drive using 3D TLC NAND and a USB 3.1 Gen 2 interface.

Corsair has a long-standing reputation in the SSD world and while the company has remained quiet on the storage front this year, that is changing today. This week, Corsair announced the new Force Series MP510 M.2 NVMe SSD, delivering more performance in capacities all the way up to 2TB. The …

Industry analysts expect Intel’s 14nm CPU shortage to lead to a further price decline for DRAM and storage markets later in the year.

The latest SATA SSD drive family from Kingston is the UV500 series.

Samsung is ramping up its efforts with solid state drives, beginning mass production of the industry’s first commercial 4-bit quad-level cell (QLC) 4TB SSD. Once this has flooded the market, Samsung promises that 1TB SSDs will become much more affordable as a result. Executive vice president of memory sales & …

Samsung is often at the very forefront of SSD technology, with the company's NVMe and 2.5″ offerings consistently delivering top performance at decent prices. Given how successful Samsung has been in this market, it should come as no surprise that further investments are being made. Specifically, Samsung kicked off mass …

Seagate is of course well known in the hard drive space thanks to its popular BarraCuda and IronWolf series of storage drives. While HDDs have been Seagate's main focus for years now, the company is beginning to make some moves in the consumer SSD space, starting with the launch of …

It's the smallest M.2 SSD we've ever seen, but what is it good for?

When you think of Realtek, you often think of audio drivers but it looks like the company is now looking to break into the SSD market too. Realtek is introducing two SSD controllers in the coming months, capable of powering the fastest M.2 NVMe drives currently available. The Realtek RTS5762 …

Seagate has been hard at work creating several different external storage solutions for the Xbox One. It all kicked off two years ago with the 2TB ‘Game Drive' HDD, which we reviewed. Since then, a 4TB HDD version has been added, and now, Seagate is turning to external SSDs for …

It's the fastest consumer drive KitGuru has ever tested - but you have to pay for every bit!

The long-awaited successor the 960 EVO is finally here - just how good is it?

Today at Computex we had the chance to swing by the MSI booth to catch up with their latest announcements. We've already seen two new ‘thin and light' gaming notebooks announced, but today we also had the chance to check out a brand new X399 prototype motherboard and two new …