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Teamgroup M200 portable SSD review: Fast, stylish, super affordable
The Teamgroup M200 20Gbps portable SSD will look right at home with first-person shooter gaming rigs—or just about any computer, truth be told.
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Gigabyte Aorus Gen5 10000 review: The first PCIe 5.0 SSD makes a splash
Gigabyte's Aorus Gen5 10000 PCIe 5.0 SSD offers easily the fastest sustained transfer rates of any drive we've tested.
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Kingston Fury Renegade SSD review: A price-to-performance gem
Kingston's Fury Renegade PCIe 4.0 SSD brings top-notch performance to the table at a relatively affordable price, and tosses in a generous TBW rating for peace of mind.
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Adata Legend 850 SSD review: Legendary everyday performance
A colorful Mister Fred-designed version of the Adata Legend 850 NVMe SSD performed exceptionally well in our 48GB real-world file transfers, and extraordinarily well for a 512GB SSD.
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Tested: Microsoft's DirectStorage signals the sunset of SATA SSDs
We test the DirectStorage performance of various SSDs and find SATA drives finally falling behind NVMe in games.
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Teamgroup C212 review: This ultra-fast USB stick is basically a portable SSD
The Teamgroup C212 USB 10Gbps is a great choice for those looking for superior speed, capacity, and the extreme portability of a thumb drive.
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4TB Samsung T7 Shield review: The best portable SSD gets bigger
We love the Samsung T7 Shield 4TB's capacity, excellent performance, weather resistance and svelte, handsome design. It's not the cheapest external 10Gbps SSD on the market, but quite arguably the best.
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Sabrent Rocket 2230 SSD review: The perfect Steam Deck companion
This 2230 form factor (only 30mm long) M.2 NVMe drive is everyday fast and a good candidate for laptop and device upgrades.
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Teamgroup MP44L SSD review: Good performance, great price
Though the Teamgroup MP44L is a lower-tier PCIe 4 performer on benchmarks, real-world speed is fine and there's no arguing the low price.
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Crucial P3 SSD review: Top PCIe 3 speed, insanely low price
Crucial's P3 SSD delivers an outstandingly low price per GB and very good everyday performance. If you don't write large amounts of data continuously, or worry about low TBW ratings, it's a heck of a bargain.
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OWC Aura Pro IV SSD review: Fast PCIe 4 reading and writing
OWC's Aura Pro PCIe 4, NVMe SSD nearly matched the top-ranked FireCuda 530 in performance, but is available for considerably less cash.
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WD Black SN850X SSD: Face-meltingly fast
WD's Black SN850X NVMe SSD delivers exceptional real-world and random performance, along with sustained throughput that nearly matched Seagate's FireCuda 530. A very fast SSD priced nicely given the performance.
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Silicon Power UD90 NVMe SSD review: Good-performing second-tier PCIe 4 drive
Silicon Power's UD90, 1TB DRAM-less NVMe SSD is a good everyday performer and one of the most affordable drives on the market.
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Seagate Beskar Ingot NVMe SSD review: A Star Wars-themed hyperdrive
Seagate's Beskar Ingot NVMe drives is a dressed-for-the-Star-Wars-ball version of the FireCuda 530. It's every bit as fast and adds a hefty, Mandalorian-themed heat sink to the mix.
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Teamgroup Cardea A440 Pro SSD review: Scintillating PCIe 4.0 performance
The Teamgroup Cardea A440 Pro is a top-tier drive that impressed us with its performance numbers, but the higher capacities are pricey and then some.
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Seagate Beskar Ingot SSD review: Fast SATA storage for Mandalorian fans
Seagate's Beskar Ingot (FireCuda SE) SSD is attractive, "collectable", and fast. But you pay a pretty penny for the styling and collectability.
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Kingston XS2000 review: This pocketable SSD is fast and spacious
Kingston's XS2000 20Gbps USB SSD is affordable, tiny enough to get lost in your pocket, and available with up to 4TB of capacity.
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SK Hynix Platinum P41 SSD review: The pursuit of affordable speed
The SK Hynix P41 is a very fast PCIe 4 NVMe SSD that's significantly cheaper than a lot of its peers, at least in the 2TB flavor.
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Adata Elite SE880 portable SSD review: Fast, affordable, and tiny
The Elite SE880 is small, a great everyday performer, and doesn't cost an arm and a leg.
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Samsung T7 Shield portable SSD review: Ultra-fast and built to last
The T7 Shield is the latest, fastest version of Samsung's top-of-the-line portable SSD. It forgoes the fingerprint scanner of the Touch in favor of a toughened outer skin for better survivability in rough environs.
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PNY CS2140 SSD review: A solid everyday drive with bargain pricing
The PCIe 4 PNY CS2140 performs like a mid-tier PCIe 3 drive, but it's available for lowball prices
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WD Black SN770 SSD review: Fast, affordable, and unusual
WD's price-competitive Black SN770 PCIe 4 NVMe SSD is an good performer and further evidence that DRAM-less (HMB) design has come of age.
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Adata Atom 50 SSD review: Affordable with excellent real world performance
While not one of the fastest PCIe 4 NVMe drive in benchmarks, the Atom 50 scored big time in our real life transfers. The drive is PS5 compatible, but uses HMB which isn't supported by the PS5, so performance may not match our numbers.
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Sabrent Rocket 4 review: An affordable PCIe 4.0 SSD with real-world skills
The Sabrent Rocket 4 is well behind the PCIe 4 curve in synthetic benchmarks, but delivers good real world performance. It's a good cheaper option for your PC or PS5.
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Kingston KC3000 SSD review: Chart-topping speed at a fantastic price
Kingston's KC3000 NVMe SSD is as fast as they come.
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Corsair MP600 Pro XT SSD review: Simply fantastic
Corsair's affordable MP600 Pro XT is a record-setting PCIe 4.0 SSD with a liquid-cooling option for a nice price.
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Silicon Power XD80 NVMe SSD review: Good performance for a great price
The Silicon Power XD80 delivers a lot of bang for the buck, though capacities other than 1TB are currently in short supply.
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Adata XPG Gammix S70 Blade SSD review: A worthy Samsung 980 Pro rival
Adata's follow-on to the S70, the XPG Gammix S70 Blade replaces the older model's 96-layer TLC NAND with 176-layer NAND. It's a worthy competitor to the Samsung 980 Pro, and compatible with the PlayStation 5.
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Seagate Firecuda 530 review: It’s very, very fast
The Seagate FireCuda 530 NVMe SSD broke all our performance records over both PCIe 3 and PCIe 4. It's pricey, but worth it for those with the need for speed.
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Seagate Backup Plus Hub (8TB) review: Massive, fast external hard drive
The Seagate Backup Plus Hub is faster than smaller 2.5-inch drives, and the only route to double-digit terabytes at an affordable price point.
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Crucial BX500 SATA SSD review: An affordable upgrade drive
Crucial's BX500 SATA SSD provides a lot of storage for the price and excellent everyday performance.
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Crucial X6 USB SSD review: Good price, good performance, good design
Crucial's X6 USB SSD operates at good SATA speeds, and it fits a ton of NAND storage into a very affordable, compact, and comfortable design.
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Samsung 980 NVMe SSD review: Low-ball pricing, light-duty performance
The Samsung 980 NVMe SSD is fine for light-duty tasks, but because it relies on system DRAM for its cache, it performs disappointingly in more intensive jobs.
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Intel 670p SSD review: Faster where it matters
The Intel 670p pulls consistent, competitive performance out of its single-sided QLC, a first for the company in an NVMe SSD.Reviews
Seagate 4-bay NAS review: Competent workgroup storage inside a classy chassis
With a tightly focused feature set, a good-looking design, and good performance, the NAS Pro hits the mark for workgroups. But a relatively sparse app store and pricey camera licenses limit its usefulness as an all-in-one SMB server solution.Reviews
Acronis True Image 2015 review: Easy to use, at last
A long-time contender for the best backup-software crown, True Image nearly gets its interface act together.Reviews
QNAP TS-251 NAS box review: Fast and versatile, but short on memory
High-end NAS boxes tend to be expensive. QNAP’s latest is the most capable in its price range, but it comes with a few caveats.Reviews
WD My Passport Wireless review: This hard drive is lightweight and affordable, but short on endurance
WD is a bit late to the wireless storage party, but its new drive brings some goodies.Reviews
Western Digital My Cloud EX2 review: Fabulous features; pedestrian performance
A pro feature set, a marvelous Web interface, and remote access via a portal makes the My Cloud EX2 is easy as it gets. But it’s a slow performer.Reviews
Best portable hard drives: These models earned our highest ratings
Here are PCWorld's four favorite portable drives, for PC users. All of them have been tested in the PCWorld labs.Reviews
Seagate Backup Plus Fast review: Double the capacity, double the speed
With two 2TB hard drives striped in RAID 0, this portable hard drive provides twice the capacity, and nearly twice the speed of single-drive products.Reviews
Western Digital Black2 Dual Drive review: Not the killer storage upgrade it could be
Kudos to WD for combining SSD read performance and hard-drive capacity in a single package, but a high price tag and slow SSD write performance complicate the buying decision.Reviews
Review: The Toshiba Q Series Pro SSD delivers top performance at a discount
Though a couple of ticks slower than the Samsung 840 Pro, the Q Series SSDs are still top performers, and they're heavily discounted online.Reviews
HDDerase.exe review: Freeware utility securely erases drives the old-fashioned way
This command-line utility is an oldie, but that's just because it doesn't need to change. If your drive's not in a frozen security state, it works like a charm to invoke the ATA secure erase command.Reviews
WD My Cloud review: A better, more secure alternative to cloud storage
Who needs Dropbox when you can get 2TB of web-accessible storage this cheap?Reviews
Review: Buffalo’s DriveStation DDR caches for superfast write performance
This external USB 3.0 hard drive boasts write performance rivaling that of an external SSD.Reviews
Review: The Patriot Aero streams media without wires—not even a power cable
The Patriot Aero creates a Wi-Fi hotspot for multimedia streaming, and it works well. In battery life and performance, however, it's a step behind the competition.Reviews
Review: Seagate Laptop Ultrathin HDD brings big storage to tight spaces
The Laptop Ultrathin HDD's name says it all: Just 5mm thick, this hard drive with decent performance will allow thinner laptop form factors and could be used in tablets, too.Reviews
Review: Active@ Boot Disk 7 is a jack-of-all-trades repair and imaging utility
This super-handy, Windows-environment boot disk is great for backup, recovery, and repair. You can even change passwords with it.Reviews