What Are Disk Speed Test Apps? Disk speed test apps help measure the overall speed and performance of a hard drive or solid-state drive (SSD) (internal or external) connected to a computer system.

There are many reasons for an SSD not to run at its advertised speeds. For instance, the SSD read and write speeds you find in the specs sheet are sequential. These are faster to pull off for the SSD ...

Preliminary tests of the Crucial T700, Micron's first PCI Express 5.0 SSD, show it to be the new Gen 5 leader and the fastest SSD we have yet seen. Since 2004, I have worked on PCMag’s hardware team, ...

YouTuber Max Tech conducted a series of controlled comparisons using identical 14-inch MacBook Pro configurations running the M4 and M5 chips. Both machines featured 512GB of ...

The new MacBook Pro, which sports that next-generation Apple M2 chip, appears to have a slower SSD performance, which fails to outperform its older brethren, which feature the M1. Early tests of the ...

The Mars 980 Blade comes with a thin aluminum heat spreader that can be stuck on the side with the exposed chips (the controller and NAND flash). The spreader's compactness allows the SSD to easily ...

TeamGroup's newest portable SSD has made its way onto our bench. This portable has just about everything we want to see from such a device. A slim and attractive military-themed enclosure. Super-fast ...

PCIe 5.0 SSDs have already started to get announced ahead of CES 2022, with Samsung and Adata teasing early hardware that supports the new standard. But it’s not just theoretical: Intel has released a ...