It is great to be able to say that PCIe 5.0 is twice as fast as PCIe 4.0 and four times faster than PCIe 3.0, but that benefit largely disappears in many real-world applications, especially gaming.

However, some unsuspecting consumers new to PC building can succumb to the hype, and overspend on SSDs that advertise ...

Overview: PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSDs dominate speed and efficiency benchmarks in 2025. These drives reduce load times, improve file access, and enhance gaming respons ...

To put that into perspective, the same drive with the same capacity sails past the $200 mark at Amazon, Newegg, and even Best ...

Update 16 December, 2025: Via a statement issued to Wccftech, Samsung has denied that it will soon be winding down production ...

Acer‘s Predator brand has officially launched the GP30 RGB gaming portable SSD. The new solid-state drive features a compact aluminum alloy body and a transparent front window that displays dynamic ...

Samsung has turned up fashionably late to the PCIe 5.0 SSD party, but it's largely been worth the wait. Rather than rushing out a new drive as soon as the first motherboards came on the scene, the ...

I have a friend Steve (not his real name) who still installs his PC games on a large, slow, noise hard drive. You know, the old-school kind that spins up before it can read or write data? I keep ...

The Lexar PLAY 2280 SE PCIe 4.0 SSD is the storage lifeline my aging PS5 console was crying out for. Not only does it provide ample space to put to bed all of those infuriating "your storage is full" ...

It might looks like a USB flash drive, but this neat, simplistic design hides a powerful SSD that offers the perfect option for backing up files on the go ...

Portable solid-state drives are great, offering lots of storage and faster speeds than a USB flash drive while in a still-portable package. People often use them to back up their PCs with backup ...

The big guns are finally coming out to join the PCIe 5.0 SSD party, first with the Samsung 9100 Pro, and now with the new WD Black SN8100, and both drives are aiming their banks of high-speed flash ...