Most of this information originally appeared in our review of Intel's Broadwell NUC. Since it's of general interest to anyone buying or building a PC, we're posting this slightly edited and expanded ...

While most PC hardware seems to have gone up in price recently, SSDs are, thankfully, bucking that trend to some extent and thanks to price drops, PCIe 4.0 SSDs are particularly good value with plenty ...

Solid-state drives are universally faster than old-school hard-disk drives, but not all SSDs are the same. They come in different shapes and sizes, have different maximum speeds, and as you might ...

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It wasn’t always so simple to add storage to a desktop or laptop. For decades, PC storage was synonymous with bulky, mechanical hard drives. The first hard drive was sold in 1956, but it wasn’t until ...

Testing shows MSI's M.2 shield traps heat. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. MSI developed what it thought was a clever solution to ...

When building a new PC, it's very likely that your fancy motherboard will feature multiple M.2 sockets. It's almost guaranteed that some portion of these SSD slots will be connected directly to the ...

Though we already reviewed the regular EVO 850 SSD series, there are more form factors and a week ago Samsung announced their Samsung 850 EVO SSD based on the M.2 slot as well as the mSATA slot.

How do you install an internal PS5 SSD and expand your storage? As any long-standing PlayStation 5 owner will tell you, the 825GB SSD that the console ships with doesn't go as far as you'd imagine ...

It's no slouch with its read speed too, which stands at a claimed 6,900MB/sec. The new M.2 NVMe SSD is based on PCI-E 4.0, which means current and some older motherboards will be able to tap into ...

Because of what SSDs are, solid-state drives (SSDs) are a core component of any modern PC, whether it’s a traditional SATA SSD or a more modern NVMe drive. Knowing the difference between these two ...