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You can grab Crucial’s P3 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD for just $48 at Amazon right now (normally $90). That’s almost half the price for a decently-sized SSD with super-fast read/write speeds for low in-game load times.The 1TB model isn’t the only Crucial NVMe M.2 SSD on sale at Amazon, either. The larger 2TB variant is down to $120 (normally $175) and the even bigger 4TB model is $200 (normally $350). If those prices are out of your budget range, the smaller 500GB model is just $32…

Lenovo Legion Tower 7i MSRP $3,350.00 “The Lenovo Legion Tower 7i makes one big mistake, but it gets almost everything else right.” Pros Flagship 4K gaming performance Support for DLSS 3 Fully upgradable Sleek, attractive design Cons RAM runs at slower speed…

Microsoft may have a problem on its hands — the latest Windows 11 update doesn’t seem to be working as intended. According to various user reports, the update drastically slows SSD speeds, in some cases even cutting them in half. If you’ve noticed that your PC is loading slowly or programs aren’t running as quickly as you’d hoped, you might be affected by this problem. Here’s how to fix it. The Windows 11 update was released on March 14 and announced on the dedicated Reddit community by a Microsoft…

Last updated: November 18th, 2022 at 13:36 UTC+01:00 Samsung’s “Ultimate” NVMe SSD, the 990 Pro, is now available in Europe. More specifically, this latest SSD that offers higher performance than the 980 Pro and claims to deliver up to 50% better energy efficiency is now available in Germany at Samsung’s online shop. It’s available in two memory configurations, and as of this writing, the variant with a heatsink appears to be missing from the store. Prospective buyers in Germany can get the 990 Pro NVMe M.2 SSD…

The Lexar Professional NM800 PRO with Heatsink M.2 SSD. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNETNeed to give your PC a speed boost? One of the best upgrades you can carry out is to swap out the storage drive for a faster drive (the other being to add more RAM, at least until you hit around 24GB or 32GB, after which the return on your investment diminishes dramatically, unless you have very specific workloads).If your computer can be kitted out with an M.2 SSD (solid-state drive), then this is one of the best upgrades you can…

Solid-state drives (SSD) are the modern storage option, but as the name suggests they have no moving parts like a traditional hard disk drive. So not only are they more rugged than hard drives, they’re much, much faster. For a big performance boost, here are the best SSDs you can buy. This isn’t about go-faster bragging rights though. Yes, you can copy enormous files to an SSD in record time, but it’s the massive boost that the drive will give you your computer’s responsiveness that will shock you most: applications…

Samsung has just unveiled an intensely fast SSD, the high-end Samsung 990 Pro. A successor to the 980 Pro, the SSD is said to deliver an up to 55% improvement in random performance over its predecessor. The new SSD, set to release in the next couple of months, will undoubtedly bring tangible improvements for gamers and content creators alike. However, there will still be better SSDs coming out in the near future — all because Samsung chose to stick to slightly older tech with the 990 Pro. Samsung Electronics Samsung…

We've reviewed several of Adata's affordable, entry-level storage products in the past, and now it's time to look at a high-end SSD model, the XPG SX8200 Pro. XPG (which stands for Xtreme Performance Gear) is a sub-brand of Adata, which targets gamers and enthusiasts who want to step up to higher-performing hardware. The company says that the XPG SX8200 Pro is its fastest performing SSD ever, and it's one of a small number of such products to ship with a heat spreader to help with sustained heavy workloads. It's also…

Seagate FireCuda 530 is the latest gaming solid state drive (SSD) from the company. The PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSD can deliver sequential read speeds of up to 7,300MBps. The SSD is offered in 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB storage options. Seagate FireCuda 530 uses its PCIe Gen4 power to have twice as fast transfer rates when compared to PCIe Gen3 SSDs and is claimed by the company to be 12 times faster than SATA-based SSDs. The Seagate gaming SSD comes in two versions - the vanilla FireCuda 530 and FireCuda 530 with heatsink.Seagate…

Kingston has a long history in the memory and flash storage markets. As far as SSDs go, we've seen quite a few entry-level models of late, and these tend to be quite popular thanks to good pricing. If you want to step up though, there's the recently launched Kingston KC2500 NVMe SSD which is aimed at the high-performance enthusiast market. It promises security as well as speed, but skips the fancy designs and attention-grabbing heat spreaders that its competitors now offer. With tempting street prices, it slots in above…