PCIe Gen 5 SSDs are now widely available. There are numerous examples of speedy Gen 5 x4 drives including Teamgroup Z540 And Nextorage X Series. But one of the names missing the Gen 5 x4 wave is Samsung. We’re yet to see a true replacement for the Samsung 990 Pro. Or have we? The answer […]
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Everyone loves a fast Gen 5 SSD, just not the prices that are attached to them. They still carry too much of a price premium over Gen 4 drives. But, as supply ramps up, the gap is slowly beginning to close. The key word there is slowly. At $269, the Teamgroup Z540 2TB PCIe Gen […]
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Known for offering bags of storage in a teeny tiny format, SD cards have been pretty slow at piling on the gigabytes over the years, compared to HDDs, SSDs, and other storage formats. Western Digital plans to step things up a notch or two, though, stating that it expects to launch 4TB models in its […]
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Anyone doing a bit of SSD shopping recently will likely have noticed that the deals have not been as bountiful as they once were, and prices seem to be on the rise. According to a newly-discovered letter from Western Digital to its partners, price rises for its entire flash and hard drive portfolio are set […]
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The sound of a crunching floppy disk drive may well be the soundtrack to a large part of my misspent youth. Please insert disk four of five. Oh you’ve lost it? No games for you, little Andy. No games for you. Putting my childhood trauma aside for a moment, it turns out that floppy disks […]
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What are you after in your next SSD upgrade? If speed is your primary desire, you will find plenty of it with the Nextorage X Series. This PCIe Gen5 compatible 2TB SSD easily crunches through files at upwards of 12 GB/s—excellent for a high-end workstation with plenty of lanes to spare. However, Gen5 drives still […]
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