Latest Storage Reviews
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Icedrive review: Slickly implemented online storage with sync and backup
Icedrive online storage is available in competitive monthly, yearly, or multi-year plans and features a clean, attractive interface as well as easy access to your files from any device.
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Kingston Dual Portable flash drive review: Competitive performance, dual connectors
With anything up to a couple hundred gigabytes of data, the Kingston 10Gbps Dual Portable flash drive performs very well. But for some reason, it's being priced way above the competition at launch.
Best Picks
Best external drives: Top picks in portable storage
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.
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Best SSDs: From SATA to PCIe 5.0, from budget to premium
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.
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The best PCIe 4.0 SSDs for blistering storage speeds
Our list has picks for best PCIe 4.0 SSD overall, best on a budget, best for a game consoles, and more. Plus what you need to know about ultra-fast PCIe 4.0 drives in general.
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SanDisk Extreme Pro Dual review: A versatile, sturdy 10Gbps flash drive
Though not a fantastic writer with larger amounts of data, the SanDisk Extreme Pro Dual is on par as a 10Mbps reader, and its captive Type-A/Type-C connectors make it conveniently connectable to any device.
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Best external SSDs for gaming: 5 great portable performance drives
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.
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SanDisk Crayola flash drive review: Unique, fun, colorful—and slow
SanDisk's Crayola 5Gbps USB (Type-C) drives are colorful, fun, and good for kids. However, capacity is limited to 256GB and write performance is very slow.Latest Storage Deals
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Samsung's ultra-fast microSD card for the Switch 2 is now 33% off
The 512GB Samsung P9 Express is down to $80 (was $120) on Amazon right now. Perfect for your Switch 2!
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Grab a tiny 1TB Samsung microSD card for 25% off
The Samsung Evo Select is only $70 at Amazon right now.
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Best Cyber Monday SSD and Storage Deals 2025 (and the top Black Friday offers still available)
You can pick up SSDs and other storage at solid prices during Cyber Monday.
Best Deals
11 boring (but practical) tech deals to grab during Cyber Monday
Boring (but practical) tech deals that you should buy during Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
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Best Cyber Monday USB Flash Drive Deals 2025 (and the top Black Friday offers still available)
Cyber Monday is the best time to score a flash drive! Here are the best Cyber Monday discounts on flash drives worth pouncing on.
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Samsung's fast 128GB microSD is only $15 today (with free USB adapter)
Take advantage of this lovely 34% discount on Samsung's microSD card — and get a USB adapter included for free.
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We love Samsung's ferocious T9 portable SSD — and it's never been cheaper
For Black Friday, the Samsung T9 is only $95 for 1TB (was $140).
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This massive 24TB(!) external hard drive is just $240 on Black Friday
This Best Buy deal drops the cost of this cavernous desktop HDD to a mere $10 per terabyte—a great price.Latest Storage News
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If you have a Samsung SSD, you better update this app ASAP
If your Samsung Magician app is older than version 9.0, you should immediately update it to patch a security vulnerability.
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SanDisk ditches Black and Blue naming for 'Optimus'- monikered SSDs
No more Black and Blue — SanDisk SSDs are now transforming to Optimus.
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SSD running slow? These 5 fixes can speed it right back up
If you encounter a sluggish SSD, you need to follow these five essential tips!
How-To
How to detect a fake SSD or flash drive before you get burned
A lot of capacity for little money? With every generation of flash data carriers, counterfeit cheat packs also come onto the market. Even renowned hard disk manufacturers are not always completely honest.
News
Dell, Lenovo said to be raising prices as chip shortages worsen
Reports out of Asia say that PC vendors like Dell and Lenovo are being forced to raise PC prices as they pay more for DRAM and storage.
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Consumer data storage is too damn small
The amount of physical space that external storage now requires is to the point that actually misplacing an external SSD that holds your digital life is an unsettling possibility.
How-To
Get your PC 2026-ready with these 9 key upgrades
How to get more performance out of your PC in the new year: The best upgrade tips for SSD, RAM, CPU, graphics card and more.
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Micron will end Crucial consumer brand in another AI casualty
Micron said Wednesday that it will stop selling DRAM and storage to consumers via its Crucial brand, pivoting to major enterprise companies like AI hyperscalers instead.SEE STORAGE STORIES BY CATEGORY