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Updated Adding an external SSD to your gaming laptop is a great way to expand your storage for holding games and making your game library portable. By Gordon Ung and Sam Singleton
Updated Whether you're looking for speed, capacity, portability, or all of the above, a USB external hard disk or SSD is a necessary complement to your desktop PC setup. By Gordon Mah Ung and Jon L. Jacobi
Reviews Corsair's Survivor Stealth SSD marries a USB stick with 10Gbps/NVMe speed, then weatherproofs/ruggedizes the whole deal to boot. Updated The best solid-state drives can supercharge your PC. Here are our picks for the best SSDs, and what you should know before a purchase. By Katherine Stevenson and Jon Jacobi
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Reviews This latest incarnation of WD's SN850X is available with up to 8TB, and turned in better results in our testing than the lower-capacity models. Reviews With a new controller and PCIe 5.0, this iteration of Corsair's MP700 host memory buffer SSD trounces PCIe 4.0's sequential benchmark performance. Reviews With four 3.5-inch SATA HDD bays (two in RAID), and four NVMe SSD slots, the D8 Hybrid allows you to add a slew of drives to your system via 10Gbps USB. Latest Storage Deals
Deal You can get this Crucial X9 portable SSD with 1TB capacity for just under $70 on Amazon. By Gabriela Vatu
Deal Catch this massive, sturdy, and speedy Shield T7 portable SSD for a whopping $190 off! By Michael Crider
Deal Get 128GB of storage space for 22% off on Amazon. The 256GB model is also on sale. By Gabriela Vatu
Deal The price is super right for this microSD card, and it even comes with a USB adapter! By Gabriela Vatu
Deal The 1TB and 2TB versions of the Crucial X9 portable SSD are on sale at Amazon. By Gabriela Vatu
Deal Now's the perfect time to get a spacious thumb drive since it's 30% off at Amazon. By Gabriela Vatu
Deal The Samsung T5 EVO portable SSD is now available at the cheapest it's ever been on Amazon. By Gabriela Vatu
Deal Tiny but mighty, you can get this spacious microSD card for just $38 on Amazon right now. By Gabriela Vatu
Latest Storage News
News The smiley yellow Peely SSD is actually pretty cute. SanDisk also made a MagSafe SSD and a Lightning flash drive for iPhone users. By Michael Crider
Feature SSDs, like any hardware, can and do fail. So, how long can you expect one to last? By Dominic Bayley
How-To Worried about privacy? Here's what you need to do before you sell, give away, or dispose of your laptop. By Jon Martindale
Feature Thunderbolt 5 exhibits a marked improvement in sequential transfers, but our first look at the spec suffered some backwards compatibility issues. And it's… pricey. By Jon Jacobi
Feature If you want your SSDs to last many years without issue, you have to stop doing these things. By Jon Martindale
Feature Building a gaming PC is still pretty cheap on Cyber Monday. Here's how to roll a 1080p machine for $585—including Windows. By Alaina Yee
Feature There are so many great uses for a portable SSD, even if you aren't a full-blown tech geek. Check out these practical use cases. By Chris Hoffman
How-To Under ideal conditions, hard drives can work for many years. However, various factors influence their service life. By Friedrich Stiemer
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