Seagate has been releasing NAS drives of various types for years. While they mainly focus on Hard Drives, Seagate has slowly but steadily increased their SSD portfolio. For NAS drives, it all falls under the IronWolf umbrella now with several options. There is the high capacity IronWolf HDDs now up to 18TB, M.2 SSDs for

The XPG GAMMIX S50 Lite is the newest consumer-grade PCIe Gen4x4 drive to hit the market. Though XPG claims that their new drive is catered to the gamer and PC enthusiast demographic, this drive is certainly more of an entry-level, budget PCIe solution. This M.2 2280 form factor SSD features 3D NAND, SLC Caching and

Today Western Digital expanded its WD_Black gaming portfolio with even more drives to speed up games and give gamers more capacity for storing content. Of the items released, one aimed particularly at PC gamers is the WD_Black AN1500. The AN1500 is an AIC SSD that fits in a PCIe slot and is compatible with over

With the release of newer AMD Ryzen motherboards, PCIe Gen4 SSDs followed suit and gradually started to hit the market. It was only a matter of time before Samsung made its first appearance in this category, which they’ve done today. The Samsung 980 PRO PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD, is a client SSD that features the

The Sabrent ROCKET NVMe PCIe SSD is an end-user M.2 SSD that leverages the PCIe Gen3 x4 interface and 3D TLC NAND. Distinguished by the color of their branding, the black and blue Rocket is the mid-range line of Sabrent’s SSD portfolio. We also reviewed the high-end Sabrent Rocket PCIe 4.0 SSD back in July.

Earlier this year Samsung released its 870 QVO SATA SSD. This SSD is composed of its second- generation quad-level cell (QLC) flash technology. We have already reviewed the 1TB and 4TB models of the drive. One of the big benefits of QLC is that it is less expensive than TLC and you can get higher

Dubbed the first 128-layer (or 4D) NAND flash-based consumer SSD, the SK hynix Gold P31 is the company’s first consumer-grade PCIe SSD to hit the US market under the SK hynix name. It features capacities of 500GB and 1TB and is targeted towards gamers, designers, and content creators.

The Seagate FireCuda 120 is purpose-built SSD for the gaming demographic, focusing on endurance and capacity. The FireCuda family also comes in two NVMe M.2 models, the FireCuda 510 and 520, the latter which leverages the new PCIe 4.0 interface.

PCIe Gen4 devices were enabled through the release of newer AMD Ryzen motherboards. We are still seeing PCIe Gen4 storage trickling out, with more and more coming out on the client side of things. Today we see our third review on the client side with the TEAMGROUP T-FORCE CARDEA Ceramic C440 M.2 SSD.