Solid-State Drives

If you've been waiting for a price drop to get your hands on a PCI Express 4.0 SSD, your long winter is over. The ADATA XPG S50 Lite delivers the best price-to-performance ratio we've seen for the spec yet.

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A compact multi-port dock that offers plenty of options when it comes to connecting peripherals, with the added bonus of a fast NVMe SSD inside, but it does come with a pretty hefty price tag.

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The WD Black 10 is a fine external hard disk drive that's suitable for a number of jobs, as long as you're aware that you're trading the superior performance that SSD offers for a more affordable price. It's fine for storing and transporting games and...

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Samsung's latest addition to its SSD ranks is the SSD 980, the long-awaited successor to the very po

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Bottom Line: HyperX's Savage EXO external SSD looks slick, and it's both easy to carry and easy on your wallet. It's equally useful for PC backups and console-game supplemental storage.

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While the engineering in the Envoy Pro Mini is exceptionally elegant, as a portable SSD, it’s a bit mediocre. While easily one of the most portable 1TB SSDs we’ve seen, you pay a high price for that milled-from-metal form compared with alternative...

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The ADATA XPG Gammix S70 is one of the fastest PCI Express 4.0 M.2 SSDs you can buy today, while rivaling pack leaders like Samsung on value.

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Corsair’s Force MP400 comes up short on endurance, but is still a responsive and affordable NVMe SSD well worth considering -- especially if you need the massive 8TB capacity.

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Samsung’s 970 PRO puts the company firmly back on top of the high performance consumer market space with some stunning performance figures – but it does come with an equally stunning price tag.

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3 expert reviews | 81 user reviews

The Kingston HyperX Savage turned in a solid performance among the leaders of the current SSD pack, and the flashy looks may appeal to gamers and PC enthusiasts wishing to pimp up their rig. Its overall performance is just behind the best of Samsung...

11 expert reviews | 252 user reviews

The fastest mainstream SSD around, just not necessarily one to shake the solid state world.

6 expert reviews | 885 user reviews

The market-leading Samsung uses innovative memory chips to devastating effect

11 expert reviews | 1894 user reviews

3 expert reviews | 20 user reviews

The 850 Evo mixes cheaper memory with 3D V-NAND technology to strike a keen balance between price and performance, and it makes for an SSD that’s one of the best mid-range drives we’ve ever seen. The faster 850 Pro isn’t much more expensive, though,...

11 expert reviews | 4229 user reviews

From an IT professional/systems administrator perspective, the Neutron GTX is impressive, speedy but not remarkable. However, it trumped its competitors on sequential write tests. For the consumer looking to make the jump to from a standard SATA drive...

53 expert reviews | 160 user reviews

Corsair’s Force MP600 is one of the fastest SSDs on the market, with sequential performance of up to 5,000 MBps. But the speed and slick aesthetics are come at a high price. And many tasks don't benefit from the extra speed.

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Fast, cheap and durable, the Adata XPG SX8200 Pro is our new favourite NVMe SSD, and the first one you should consider when building a PC or upgrading a laptop.

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Samsung has taken the unprecedented move with its Samsung SSD 830 256GB of using its own individually created firmware, DRAM and NAND. Does that give it the edge?

41 expert reviews | 6183 user reviews

Samsung has once again proven that it’s at the top of the SSD hill. However, the drop in the length of warranty means this drive makes even less sense for most users. It’s a great product, but most people can get a drive that’s more than fast enough...

5 expert reviews | 281 user reviews

The Sandisk Extreme Pro is a good SSD. Its stonkingly fast large files performance alone make it a good alternative to the 512GB 850 Pro, which costs 55p per gigabyte compared to the Extreme Pro’s 46p. However, the Crucial MX100 still remains the SSD...

17 expert reviews | 298 user reviews

We expected great things when Intel announced it was to enter the SSD market and with the X25-M it has certainly delivered. Of course it costs a lot and the capacity is nothing compared to much cheaper hard drives, but that's always been the case with...

134 expert reviews | 2659 user reviews

A 1TB SSD RAID array with 1GB/s reads and writes, what's not to like?

68 expert reviews | 1105 user reviews

The MX100’s endurance rating of 72TB is decidedly average – half as much as the Samsung 850 Pro. Many other drives also promise greater longevity, although most consumers shouldn’t be concerned unless they’re running lots of heavy workloads.

38 expert reviews | 1096 user reviews

Crucial has returned to the hit list of must-have SSDs with its M500. Not because it’s the fastest but because it has great multi-platform PC support, a good balance of large- and small-file transfer speeds, and an attractive price without relying on...

38 expert reviews | 3564 user reviews