Today Micron announced that it was expanding its line of NVMe SSDs under the Crucial banner with the introduction of the Crucial P5 and P2. The new end user drives are aimed at gamers and PC enthusiasts. Basically, the expanded P-Series aims to up performance in a cost-effective manner.

Back at CES 2020, when shows were still a physical event, Seagate announced several new gaming drives. One of the internal drives announced was the Seagate FireCuda 510 SSD. This SSD comes in an M.2 form factor and leverages the NVMe interface. With NVMe PCIe Gen3 ×4 and a 28GB enhanced dynamic SLC cache, this

Today Seagate Technology plc announced the expansion of its IronWolf SSD product line. The company is rolling out the Seagate IronWolf 510 SSD. This new SSD is a M.2 NVMe drive is aimed at NAS devices that need storage for caching. Seagate states the drive can hit cashing speeds up to 3GB/s and is ready

Western Digital SSD Dashboard is used to manage the company’s drives (which includes SanDisk products), featuring useful disk information, ways to optimize and sanitize/clean your SSD, and easy point-and-click firmware updates.  At first glance, we noticed that the interface has a much more modern look than most other SSD drive management tools we’ve looked at.

Western Digital (WD) today announced its fifth-generation 3D NAND technology. Built on TLC and QLC technologies, BiCS5 will have a competitive price tag while delivering excellent capacity, performance, and reliability. WD indicates that these characteristics will make it ideal for the exponential growth of data in the areas of connected cars, mobile devices, and artificial

Announced back in November, the 665p is Intel’s latest QLC SSD. Like its predecessor the Intel 660p, the 665p leverages QLC (quad-level cell) 3D NAND to lower the price of the SSD while only taking a moderate performance hit. The 665p is built off of Intel’s 96-layer NAND, the first QLC drive to hit the market

The ADATA XPG SPECTRIX S40G RGB is an M.2 SSD that is designed for those looking for performance at a good price as well as a little bit of Wow in their drive design. The S40G leverages an NVMe interface, as well as SLC caching and a DRAM buffer, for quoted speeds of 3.5GB/s read

Back at CES this year, Toshiba announced its new BG4 lineup. BG4 stands for the fourth generation of the company’s ball grid array (BGA) SSD product line. These new SSDs come in the tiny M.2 2230 form factor making them ideal for ultra-mobile PCs, 2-in-1 notebook PCs, IoT/embedded devices, and server and storage array boot

The ADATA XPG SX6000 is the latest in the company’s line of M.2 PCIe SSDs. The drive is touted as being a better performer at the same costs, or offering a better cost-performance ratio. The drive comes in a M.2 (2280) form factor and leverages PCIe3x2 interface (NVMe 1.2 supported). The drive utilizes 3D NAND that