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Finding the best SSD or solid-state drive for your specific system and needs is key if you want the best gaming PC or laptop, or even if you just want a snappy productivity machine. A slow storage drive often leads to a big bottleneck, forcing your processor (even if it's one of the best CPUs for Gaming) to waste clock cycles, waiting for data to crunch. To speed up your write and read speed, you need a speedy SSD. To figure out which is the best SSD, we test dozens of drives each year and highlight the best drives…

Western Digital has successfully pivoted from selling only mechanical hard drives to offering a range of storage solutions across media types and form factors. We're now well past the point where only enthusiasts would consider an SSD essential – it's hard to find a laptop without one these days, and even high-capacity models are not out of reach for everyday users. The WD Blue lineup targets those who don't want the absolute top-end specifications, or don't have the very latest hardware to take advantage of. With its…

Western Digital launched the WD Black SN770 NVMe SSD (solid-state drive) in India on Tuesday. The company's latest SSD is aimed at gamers, and touted to provide quick load times, smoother streaming, and reduced in-game stutter in intensive games. WD Black SN770 offers read speeds up to 5.1GBps on the high-end storage models, along with thermal management and improved power efficiency, according to the company. The new WD Black SN770 SSD comes with support for PCIe Gen4 systems, along with backwards compatibility for PCIe…

How fast do you need your SSD to be? Is there a point beyond which speed won't matter, and should you really be chasing every last drop of performance? In a short time, we've jumped from spinning hard drives to SATA SSDs to the NVMe protocol, and each of these standards has reached a saturation point, beyond which any drive will be bottlenecked. Now, a relatively new breed of SSDs is doubling the potential speed of NVMe thanks to the PCIe 4.0 standard. This has opened up a whole new category in the SSD market, and most…