Solid-State Drives

We have misgivings about the complete dearth of support outside Microsoft Windows, particularly now that Samsung’s SSDs are proving popular upgrades for Apple Mac computers where they're known to work so well. We cannot comment on longevity of the new...

29 expert reviews | 6321 user reviews

The Kingston SSDNow V+'s results aren’t bad, but better drives are available for the same kind of money. The inclusion of a drive caddy and software are attractive, but when paying this much we’d rather take the faster drive - and one capable of...

26 expert reviews | 256 user reviews

Kingston’s V300 240GB has something for everyone. First time buyers will appreciate its dollar per GB ratio and PC veterans won’t help but

18 expert reviews | 6580 user reviews

Getting onto the drive, its construction inspires more confidence than most. While by no means even remotely fragile, most of the SSDs that come through our office are made using a strong upper shell and weaker metal baseplate. The Kingston, on the...

68 expert reviews | 169 user reviews

The SD700 will suit those looking for a rugged storage device that can provide ample capacity without costing too much. It performs superbly well and remains the only SSD we’ve seen that is IP68 rated.

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If you're moving up from a hard drive, the SanDisk Ultra Plus is totally worth its price.

25 expert reviews | 987 user reviews

The Seagate 600 SSD is a good value, but high-performance solid?state drive. Now over one year old, it’s available at very competitive prices, which work out at a very reasonable 42p per gigabyte for the larger-capacity 480GB capacity model.

12 expert reviews | 23 user reviews

As is the case with most Apple accessories, the Mobile Drive Mg carries a noticeable price premium over other external hard disks. The

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The Aegis Padlock SSD is one of the toughest and most secure drives on the market. It is expensive and slow, but otherwise fulfills the role of being an impregnable guardian of your data in a post-GDPR era.

7 expert reviews | 90 user reviews

It's been a long time coming, but Patriot has finally released its own SandForce-based SSD, the performance-oriented Patriot Wildfire 120GB.

29 expert reviews | 63 user reviews

Is the Agility 3 SSD all that agile?

60 expert reviews | 2483 user reviews

Samsung SSDs are amongst the quickest around. And if you crave for such performance when on the go, Samsung has got the Portable SSD T1 for you. We find out if this new external hard disk drive lives up to Samsung's reputation for producing fast flash ...

8 expert reviews | 276 user reviews

Bottom Line: Available in a capacious 1TB version and boasting screaming read/write speeds, the WD Black NVMe is an excellent M.2 SSD to install in a gaming rig or media-editing workstation.

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Excellent performance and value, even if the smart money is on the 60GB version.

65 expert reviews | 1276 user reviews

Kingston's Predator SSD has an optional HHHL PCIe adapter that allows systems without M.2 slots to use the drive.

8 expert reviews | 43 user reviews

The Toshiba Q300 480GB (2016) SSD is cheaper than most of its competitors and yet is able to provide a fantastic all-round performance. If you're looking to upgrade or build a budget system, then the Q300 is a solid choice.

8 expert reviews | 165 user reviews

Notably, it delivers its impressive peak performance numbers beyond the 500MB/s mark courtesy of data compression. Which is clever, except that much of the data you shunt around, like images and music and video, isn't compressible. That explains why...

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The OCZ Throttle may not be the most rugged or desirable-looking USB flash drive and nor is it the cheapest, but its addition of an eSATA port means that data transfer is much faster than most competing drives, so for that reason we recommend it.

53 expert reviews | 4628 user reviews

The Kingston SSDNow V+200 kit provides a no-nonsense way to upgrade your spinning drives to SSD speed, but parts of the package are a bit too backward-looking.

15 expert reviews | 1925 user reviews

When I get a new Corsair product into my hands I expect one thing – for it to work great aand perform at least as advertised. This is simply due to the fact that it has always been for me that way, and this time wasn’t any different. The Corsair Force...

23 expert reviews | 23 user reviews

I think it’s safe to say that the Crucial BX200 480GB SSD has quite a lot going for it when you consider the overall package and all sides to the story. On the one hand, you have a drive which isn’t only just competitively priced, but offers a large...

21 expert reviews | 77 user reviews

The Intel 800p delivers excellent read speed and acceptable write for those PC owners that want to go beyond what SATA SSD technology has to offer. But price and capacity are still issues for Intel.

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Professional-class SSDs don't come any quicker

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The OCZ Trion 100 is a well balanced drive which delvers strong results with both compressible and incompressible data. They also hit aggressive price points.

22 expert reviews | 348 user reviews

The WD My Cloud Home Duo is a little different to other external hard drives in that it connects to your router, making it a sort of NAS for beginners. It mostly impresses, if you can live without any advanced network options and transfer speeds that...

3 expert reviews | 7 user reviews