SanDisk's WD_BLACK SN8100 PCIe 5.0 NVMe M.2 2280 "game drive" SSD delivers double the read speeds of my Gen 4 favorite, but comes with a trade-off.

HighPoint Technologies is changing the game with its new Rocket 7604A and Rocket 1604A PCIe Gen5 NVMe AICs, which deliver ...

Realtek is attempting to enter the SSD controller market with its RTS5781DL, a PCIe 5.0 DRAM-less controller that is now ...

The latest SSDs have less impact on PC gaming compared to professional uses. The latest SSDs have less impact on PC gaming compared to professional uses. Tom Warren is a senior editor and author ...

The HP FX900 isn't the fastest PCI Express 4.0 NVMe SSD on the block, but this M.2 model puts up solid (and, in some cases, excellent) numbers at a surprisingly moderate price. It's a no-frills ...

While older computers and storage drives might still use the common SATA or the older PCIe 3.0 interfaces to sling your bits of data around, more recent computing equipment typically supports the ...

Who’s it for: Casual gamers and media professionals who don't need PCIe Gen 4.0 speeds. Why we picked the Crucial P3: The Crucial P3 SSD is a budget-friendly NVMe drive that offers solid ...

NVMe is primarily seen on PCIe-based SSDs that are built in the M.2 size. Those are the stick drives that are a few inches long and around an inch wide. This brings us to what M.2 is — it’s a ...

Lexar’s PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD provides the best combination of price and performance we saw in our testing, frequently besting more expensive SSDs. This PCIe 5.0 drive is the fastest drive we tested ...

But they also have a significant drawback - this is the SATA (Serial AT Attachment) transfer protocol used in them, which slows down interaction with other components… And here we get to NVMe drives!

In production, OCuLink has been used a lot in modern servers, where it’s not uncommon to want PCIe half a meter away from the chipset, wired up to something like a bay full of NVMe drives.

Most of today’s newest internal solid-state drives are M.2-format "gumstick" SSDs that run over the PCI Express (PCIe) bus and employ a standard called Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe ...