The ADATA XPG Spectrix S40G carries some respectable wins out of its duel with other competing drives we've tested, and it looked great doing it. If you’re finding that your PC performance is slowing down, these tips can help improve your speeds and PC efficiency. Make sure the width and especially the length (expressed in millimeters) will work in the space available for the drive. M.2 drive length isn't always an indicator of drive capacity, but there are limits to NAND-chip density and how many memory modules engineers can stuff onto a PCB of a given size.

Two Type-C ports allow you to charge your devices and transfer data at the same time, making everything twice as easy! drive you are looking at will be labeled with a four- or five-digit number as part of its specifications or model name. Its compact form factor, high compatibility, and outstanding performance are ideal for embedded applications in the medical, military, and automation sectors. With these, you may see a substantive increase in performance in benchmark testing, but in most real-world usage, they'll just feel like a fast, premium SATA SSD.PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) is a newer interface that features a smaller physical footprint, meaning it takes up less space in your computer, as seen in the image below. inch drive bay using a simple bracket, or even just using alternate mounting holes in those same spots. The SATA and PCIe interfaces are the physical connections that transmit data from the memory storage to the computer.

Product name and photography are for identification purposes only and may differ from the actual product. Of course, to show off the lighting, you will need to have an open-frame rig, or one with a see-through case. As a result, the only reasons you'd upgrade the drive, in that situation, would be to get more capacity, or if the old one failed. The MP700 Pro needs an effective cooling system to disperse the heat it generates; along with an air-cooled option or the barebones drive, Corsair offers this SSD with a water block for use with PCs that incorporate a custom liquid-cooling loop, which might appeal to DIY-ers looking to build the fastest, most tricked-out rig they can. The display of third-party trademarks and trade names on this site does not necessarily indicate any affiliation or the endorsement of PCMag.

Upgrading your memory can be confusing, especially with evolving technologies, increasing options on the shelf, and numerous acronyms.

This power-efficient drive gets high marks for raw speed, everyday application performance, a strong software suite, and hardware-based encryption. You can connect peripherals such as mice, keyboards, USB flash drives, external hard drives or portable SSDs, or take out the SD or microSD card as soon as you finish taking a photoshoot and read files directly from your laptop or mobile devices.

It's a dead duck, now; we only mention it because you may run across it if you're upgrading a laptop or desktop from a few years back. M.2 is a form factor specification that was introduced in 2012 and designed to replace the mSATA standard. The boiled-down essence of an SSD with the shell removed, an mSATA drive is a bare, rectangular circuit board. We use “Kingston” to refer to our trading companies based in the United Kingdom, and their legal successors. It aced our Adobe program and Windows launching tests and put up fairly good numbers on our gaming benchmarks.

PCIe Gen 4 doubles the data rate of PCIe Gen 3, allowing PCIe Gen 4 devices to transfer data at much faster speeds. The NM790's durability (TBW) ratings are high, particularly at its smaller 512GB and 1TB capacities.If you're a custom PC builder with RGB-lighting fever, and have RGB-ified just about every inch and corner of your system, perk up: ADATA has brought pretty lights to the internal SSD final frontier. Micron, the Micron logo, Crucial, and the Crucial logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Micron Technology, Inc. PCIe uses four lanes for storage devices, resulting in data exchange that is four times faster than a SATA connection, which only has one lane. For AMD, that is the X570 and B550 (and later) chipsets (for mainstream Ryzen CPUs) and the AMD TRX40 and later (for Ryzen Threadripper).