Storage Archive

If you’ve been considering building your own external SSD drive, you’ve got your choice of cases. Are you looking for something big and beefy? Probably not, or you wouldn’t be using an M.2 interface. But that can lead you into some trouble: specifically, a lot of M.2 cases aren’t very durable. They’re designed to slip into your pocket, not to take a serious beating. To …

SSD manufacturer Sabrent is a relatively new player when compared to some of the bigger names like Seagate, SanDisk, and Samsung, but their Rocket SSD quickly gained a reputation for being one of the most reliable, affordable solid state drives on the market. But it was an internal drive, and Sabrent fans wanted an external option. So, in 2018, the company released the Sabrent Rocket …

Have you got a box of old floppies kicking around? They might contain old documents, images from an early digital camera, or maybe even some classic games that you’d like to fire up on an emulator. Believe it or not, it wasn’t that long ago that floppies were considered the best way to store data. In fact, less than five years ago new desktop PCs …

In recent years, solid state drives (SSD) have become more and more popular. What was once an expensive technology, designed only for high-end systems, is now nearly as affordable as a traditional HDD drive. Now that anyone can own one of these drives, manufacturers have been rolling out more advanced versions. Today, we’ll be looking at military grade external SSD drives, which are the latest …

In most cases, computers are bottlenecked by their hard drive. This is especially the case when you’re looking at HHDs with spinning platters. While SATA SSDs did a lot to help open those bottlenecks up a bit, the SATA interface frankly is still quite limiting on your bandwidth. And that’s where NVMe PCIe SSDs come into play. Kingston KC2000 NVMe PCIe SSD The Kingston KC2000 …