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 …
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 …
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 …
When you’re working with most hard drives, one drop can be fatal. That’s more true with HHD technologies than SSD drives because there aren’t any moving mechanical parts to be broken inside solid state machines. But even an SSD can break from one solid blow, like a book landing on top of it. Which is …
How fast is too fast? When it comes to computing, that’s actually a pretty complicated question. Suffice to say, the speeds provided by next generation drives aren’t right for everyone. If you’re just using a PC to check your email and read the news, then you really don’t need to rush to upgrade from a …