Latest Storage Reviews
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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.
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Addlink P50 Thumb drive review: Versatile, fast for light to medium loads
The versatile Addlink P50 Type-A and Type-C USB thumb drive SSD writes small data sets fine, but took nearly two hours to write our 450GB file.
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Corsair MP700 Micro SSD review: PCIe 5.0 meets the 2242 form-factor to good effect
This 2242 Host Memory Buffer SSD is good for smaller devices, but performance isn't up to 2280 PCIe 5.0.
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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.Latest Storage Deals
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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.
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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.
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Black Friday USB flash drive deals: What to expect, early sales
We're seeing tons of early thumb drive deals and we're itching to add them to our carts.Latest Storage News
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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.
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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.
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Black Friday 2025 could be your last chance for cheap PC deals, experts warn
Here are the Black Friday deals you can expect (or not) in CPUs, DRAM, SSDs, and graphics cards. Bottom line? You'd better buy now than later.
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RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices
Get ready to buy PC memory like you buy lobster.
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Black Friday 2025: How to get the best prices on tech, and where to shop
Here are all the important things to know for Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2025, plus tips to score the best deals.
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Google Drive's shared files and folders can now have permissions auto-expire
Google Drive users can now grant temporary access to a file or folder, which is automatically revoked after a specified date.
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SanDisk's ultra-tiny USB flash drive is built to live in your laptop forever
SanDisk showed off “the world’s smallest USB-C flash drive,” designed to be small enough to stay plugged in at all times.SEE STORAGE STORIES BY CATEGORY