Servers & Storage

G-Drive ArmorATD hard drive review: Style, toughness, and low cost per gigabyte

When you don't need SSD performance, the SanDisk Professional G-Drive USB Hard Drive offers style, toughness, and affordable capacity.

Sabrent Rocket 4 review: An affordable PCIe 4.0 SSD with real-world skills

The Sabrent Rocket 4 is well behind the PCIe 4 curve in synthetic benchmarks, but delivers good real world performance. It's a good cheaper option for your PC or PS5.

Best external SSD for gaming

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. But you need to choose the right external SSD or you could sell your gaming performance short.

Best external drives for backup, storage, and portability

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.

Sabrent XTRM-Q 16TB external SSD review: A sexy-sounding misfire on the Mac

Sabrent's XTRM-Q Thunderbolt 3 drive sports two 8TB NVMe SSDs that can be combined (striped) for speed, or mirrored for redundancy. But it's over-priced at $3300, uses software RAID, and performance on the Mac slowed under load

SanDisk G-Drive SSD review: Run cool, run fast, run rugged

This 10Gbps USB SSD is a looker with exceptional performance and an IP67 rating. It's also relatively affordable.

Silicon Power XD80 NVMe SSD review: Good performance for a great price

The Silicon Power XD80 delivers a lot of bang for the buck, though capacities other than 1TB are currently in short supply.

The best PCIe 4.0 SSD

Samsung's 980 Pro is the best PCIe 4.0 SSD you can buy right now. We explain why, and what you need to know about ultra-fast PCIe 4.0 drives in general.

Adata’s first SD Express card is faster than an SSD

Adata's NVMe-based SD Express 7.0 card doubles UHS-II performance, and runs faster than a SATA SSD.

Seagate Firecuda 530 (2TB) review: It's very, very fast

The Seagate FireCuda 530 NVMe SSD broke all our performance records over both PCIe 3 and PCIe 4. It's pricey, but worth it for those with the need for speed.