Solid-State Drive Reviews

With the lowest pricing on the market, the SanDisk Ultra II is an excellent upgrade for your aging computer.

18 expert reviews | 2827 user reviews

As I said in the introduction of this review HyperX is what Kingston calls their top-tier products, so does this drive deserve that name? It sure does! From an overall standpoint this drive is the fastest 2.5-inch solid state drive we have tested...

49 expert reviews | 243 user reviews

3 expert reviews

Samsung’s 970 EVO was a very successful and popular drive and now it has been given a new lease of life with the latest NAND technology in the form of the 970 EVO Plus. It is safe to say the new NAND gives it a healthy performance boost over the...

4 expert reviews

For heavy storage users who also need a high level of data safety, the Crucial MX200 is an excellent buy.

24 expert reviews | 430 user reviews

There are so many reasons why the M550 could be one of the best SSDs in the market. It has the best-in-class encryption support (along with Samsung 840 EVO) and it's also one of the only consumer-grade drives with power loss protection. Heck, it even...

33 expert reviews | 367 user reviews

Corsair’s MP600 PRO is another of the second generation PCIe Gen 4 drives that shows the improvement in controller technology in a relatively short time frame. The clever way Corsair has designed the removable heatsink and its cradle means that it’s a...

2 expert reviews

Samsung just launched some hot, new solid state drives, the SSD 970 EVO and 970 PRO, featuring a revamped Phoenix controller and the company's latest

4 expert reviews

We're becoming somewhat repetitive in our writing about SSDs -- every next one is that extra little bit faster or better and the crown just keeps exchanging ha...

120 expert reviews | 549 user reviews

The Blue SN500 isn’t the fastest NVMe drive out there, but it’s certainly fast enough for the average user, and the price is right. At the capacities it’s available in, I recommend it over the Crucial P1, which suffers a severe slowdown on those rare...

5 expert reviews

The sleek, expensive Samsung Portable SSD X5 offers the fastest single-drive external storage money can buy, but it's suited mainly to well-heeled content-creation pros using late-model Macs.

4 expert reviews

The Western Digital My Passport Wireless SSD is pricey, but this feature-packed drive can do much more than just wirelessly transfer files.

41 expert reviews | 84 user reviews

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.

2 expert reviews

A hard drive that spins up terabytes with some attitude

2 expert reviews

Bottom Line: TeamGroup's T-Force Cardea II is a brawny M.2 PCI Express SSD with a high durability rating and a showy heat sink born for windowed desktop-PC cases. It's a solid pick, but get the 1TB capacity to attain top performance.

2 expert reviews

More capacity, but not more performance.

10 expert reviews | 70 user reviews

I appreciate Samsung’s leveraging of a rarely used NVMe feature (HMB) to reduce costs and save everyone money. The 980 does that, and you might be perfectly happy with it if you single-task with light stuff like web surfing, email, word processing,...

4 expert reviews

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.

4 expert reviews

The OWC Envoy Pro mini is a nice tool to have around, especially if you frequently need to move files while traveling from place to place. It's also more reliable than a $15 USB thumb drive, since it uses SSD technology instead of cheaper flash memory....

5 expert reviews

SK Hynix, best known as a supplier of storage and DRAM chips to system makers, lands a solid base hit with its Gold S31. Its debut retail SSD delivers on-point speed and good value per gigabyte for a new SATA drive.

5 expert reviews

WD My Cloud Home – the game changer has come of age (review) WD's latest My Cloud Home, designed for home networks and private cloud storage, has wisely

6 expert reviews | 5 user reviews

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.

2 expert reviews

Following up from our recent look at 8TB QLC SSDs , today we're taking a look at the 1TB Corsair MP400. This is a QLC NVMe SSD using the Phison E12 controller, which puts it a step up from earlier QLC SSDs that used four-channel Silicon Motion...

3 expert reviews

The ThinkPad P1 Gen 8 is a step faster than the ThinkPad P1 Gen 7 while adding support for Thunderbolt 5 connectivity and a new, smaller USB-C AC adapter. The series is known for offering discrete Nvidia graphics options despite the ultrathin profile...

6 expert reviews | 1 user reviews

For most purposes, the 970 EVO Plus can now be regarded as Samsung's flagship consumer SSD, and it deserves that title. Its primary competition comes from NVMe drives that are much cheaper but offer similar real-world performance with lower worst-case...

3 expert reviews