Storage Visions 2015 -Mike Chen from Marvell stopped by the TweakTown booth at Storage Visions 2015 to display the Altaplus controller along with a new SSD that has an integrated controller on the ...
Intel has a message for all the NAND-based storage gurus: "Honey, I shrunk the X25 solid state drive!" That's essentially the idea behind Intel's new SSD 310 series, an ultra-small drive Intel claims ...
A fancy name and svelte design can’t make up for this drive’s slow sustained writes. If you regularly write more than a few gigabytes to your external drive, then (pricing being relatively equal) opt ...
If you’re juggling large photo libraries, video files, or just want a reliable way to back up your stuff, this one’s a win. The Crucial X9 Pro 2TB Portable SSD is now $119.99, a 33% drop from its ...
While the Sabrent Rocket Nano V2 isn’t the fastest 20Gbps SSD on the planet, it’s plenty fast and fits a ton (up to 4TB) of storage in a super-small form factor. Nice. Sabrent’s Rocket Nano V2 ...
For videographers, investing in quality accessories is always the go-to approach to making your work more efficient. When the iPhone 15 Pro came to the house, there were a lot of accessories you could ...
You're right, SSDs are still pretty darn expensive, and can seriously raise the cost of your computer—especially if you're trying to build or buy a cheaper machine, an SSD can seem like it raises the ...
ADATA recently launched two new solid-state drives (SSDs): one it claims is the fastest and smallest external SSD, and the other is a new 2.5-in laptop SSD based on 3D NAND. Here, I review ADATA’s ...
Intel, known for partnership with Micron Technology for high-speed SSD, has announced the "310 series" of extremely small sized SSDs. Compared with the 2.5-inch HDD size which had been deployed ...
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Small files are ruining your SSD

It seems counterintuitive, but SSDs are actually much happier moving big files than dealing with a number of tiny ones. When ...