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All Specs The DiskAshur M2 from iStorage (starts at $142 for 120GB, $275 for the 1TB version we tested) excels at the primary mission of any security-focused SSD: making sure that no unauthorized person can ever get their hands on your data. It succeeds thanks to hardware encryption, PIN authentication, and what is, in effect, a self-destruct mechanism should anyone breach its housing. This SSD repels the elements, too, impervious to water and dust, and it's shockproof and crushproof. Like most security-centric external SSDs, the M2 isn't particularly fast as SSDs go, and you do pay a premiu...

Photo: Joanna Nelius/Gizmodo A PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSD is the newer and faster sibling to the gum stick-sized SSD you probably have in your computer right now, and with new options from AMD, Intel, and Sony, we now have more reasons to upgrade. Advertisement PCIe 4.0 is roughly twice as fast as PCI 3.0. Many PCIe 3.0 SSDs top out at 3500 MB/s, while PCIe 4.0 can hit 5000 MB/s or higher. PCIe 4.0 can handle double the amount of bandwidth as PCIe 3.0—32 GB/s versus 16 GB/s—which can help decrease game loading times or reduce how long it takes to transfer files between drives. It’s one of the si...

Competitive pricing for its performance class Field-leading SSD software suite Five-year warranty Still capped at PCI Express 3.0's natural ceiling The new Samsung SSD 980 (nope, no "EVO" today folks) enters the field of internal solid-state drives with some pretty stiff goals to meet. Its older brother, the PCI Express 4.0-based Samsung SSD 980 Pro ($229 for 1TB), blew out our testing benchmarks across the board when we reviewed it back in September of last year, and even though the PCI Express 3.0-based Intel SSD 670p ($154.99 for 1TB), launched last week, gives the SSD 980 some healthy com...

All Specs Between you and us...the world of PCI Express 3.0 internal solid-state drives (SSDs) has gotten a bit stale, lately, hasn't it? While innovations are continuing in materials science and engineering that are packing ever more data into smaller and smaller chips for less money every year, the sequential speed throughput of the standard has been capped by the limitations of the interface. So what's next? The Intel SSD 670p, that's what. Specially tuned to perform ahead of the curve in tasks like booting operating systems and launching key programs, the 670p (starts at $89.99 for 512G...

The Sabrent Rocket Q4 (starts at $159.99 for 1TB; $749.99 for 4TB as tested) is not the highest-capacity internal SSD we have reviewed—that distinction belongs to the 8GB Sabrent Rocket Q—but it gives you far more storage space than typical M.2 solid-state drives, which seldom exceed 2TB. In testing the 4TB version, the Q4 proved true to its sizzling read and write speed ratings over a PCI Express 4.0 bus, although it couldn't keep up with the Samsung SSD 980 Pro, our Editors' Choice high-end internal SSD on PCIe 4.0. Still, it's a decent alternative on this fast new bus for folks who don...