When it comes to PC gaming, nothing pulls you out of the action faster than a long-lasting loading screen. As your game of choice rushes to load assets and textures, a slow hard drive or solid-state ...

Solid-state drives (SSDs) are the backbone of the modern, fast and responsive computing experience. Your PC boots up in seconds, your games load even faster and your whole PC feels snappy and raring ...

All SSDs are fast, but it takes a special breed to perform their best in PC games. From internal M.2 drives to external USB models, these are the top SSDs we've tested for new desktop builds or ...

Overview The best SSDs for desktops 2025 combine high throughput, strong endurance, and good thermal design.NVMe (PCIe) SSDs ...

This 1TB Samsung T9 external SSD for gaming features sequential read speeds of up to 2,000MB/s and it's now down to just $109 ...

Adata's Simon Chen has warned that gaming SSDs, hard drives, and both DDR4 and DDR5 RAM chips, are in short supply and prices ...

Overview The best SATA SSDs of 2025 offer fast load times and reliability for gaming PCs.Look for high read/write speeds and ...

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Top picks for gamers - Guilty as charged gaming hoarder, Stuart Pritchard, heads down the route of additional hard drives to ...

The Seagate FireCuda Gaming SSD is very fast, if you attach it to a very rare SuperSpeed USB 20Gbps port. Otherwise, it’s no faster than other drives over older USB. Right up front, kudos to whoever ...

SSDs My favorite 2 TB PCIe 4.0 SSD now costs only 6¢ per gigabyte, meaning I can totally justify using it to battle my Steam backlog, right? SSDs I have a sick urge ...

Next generation video game consoles have changed the conversation about supplemental storage for big game libraries. In short, it looks as though they won’t support external storage for installing and ...