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. The XPG Spectrix S40G is the most flamboyant NVMe drive we've seen to date. With its exceptional 4K write speeds, top-notch sequential-read speeds, and respectable durability rating, ADATA makes having a top-of-the line, over-the-top SSD affordable and fun, in one fell swoop. Who It's For 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. As a result, most of the M.2 drives we've seen to date have topped out at 2TB, though you can find a few 4TB and 8TB models at lofty prices. The typical capacity waypoints are as follows: Average Power Consumption (system level) *Average: 6 W*Maximum: 9 W (Burst mode)* Actual power consumption may vary depending on system hardware & configuration has become a more attractive capacity point for SSDs as time has gone on. While there are now many options available, most come with compromises of one sort or another. You may have to settle for QLC, a weaker controller, no DRAM, unreliable hardware, etc. This is not always a big deal, especially if the drive is intended to be a secondary gaming drive. In the PlayStation 5, however, extra cooling is beneficial, so it’s convenient to have a heatsink option available. At the same time, laptops favor bare drives and especially single-sided drives, the latter of which have been very rare with TLC until recently. tradeIn.yesAttr.text}} {{tradeIn.yesAttr.subText}} {{tradeIn.yesAttr.text}} {{tradeIn.yesAttr.subText}}

South Korean memory-chip maker SK Hynix is a relative newcomer to the consumer solid-state drive market, but you would never know that based on its first offerings. The SK Hynix Platinum P41, a PCI Express 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD, is its best yet. It dominated our PCMark 10 and 3DMark Storage benchmark testing, setting several new records in the process. The P41 supports 256-bit AES hardware-based encryption. SK Hynix provides a clone utility tool, the SK Hynix System Migration Utility, for its SSDs, in addition to Easy Drive Manager software, which lets you see detailed information on drive health, run diagnostics, and erase the drive. And the P41 can be had for a very reasonable price in its 1TB and 2TB capacities. Who It's For Az 500-960 GB kapacitású meghajtók jelentik az arany középutat az ár és a tárhely mérete között. Az 500 GB-os modellek kifejezetten jó ár-kapacitás aránnyal rendelkeznek, ám az ekkora kapacitást használók számára azonban gyorsan vonzóvá válhatnak az 1 TB méretű SSD-k is. Random Write (4KB, QD32) Up to 1,000,000 IOPS * Performance may vary based on system hardware & configuration

A 250-480 GB kapacitású meghajtók a nagyobb kapacitású meghajtókhoz képest még jóval olcsóbbak, viszont még mindig szűkösen lehet elférni rajtuk, amennyiben az operációs rendszer és a játékok mellett filmeket és zenéket is szeretne rajtuk tárolni. Welcome to the cutting edge! You're shopping for a kind of drive that many folks don't even realize exists. As a result, you need to pay attention to several factors that may not be documented very well while you shop. Let's recap. One last caveat to drop in before we get to our product recommendations surrounds Intel's SSD line. Intel for a while sold a family of M.2-based storage products under the brand name Optane, in two very distinct types of drive. Intel's Optane SSDs are SSDs like any other, bootable drives that can serve as a stand-alone boot drive or as secondary storage. They were discontinued for consumers in 2021, but you may still see them around. (Incidentally, Intel ultimately sold its SSD business at the end of 2021 to SK Hynix, which has spun it off into a new Hynix subsidiary, Solidigm.)

The SK hynix Gold P31 is still the gold standard for laptop SSDs, especially as it has DRAM, but it’s limited to PCIe 3.0 bandwidth, isn’t always available, and is limited to 2TB of capacity. The MP44 can get twice the bandwidth, but even in a 3.0 slot, it is inexpensive for 4TB and even has an 8TB option. Other alternatives, like the Crucial P3 Plus or Corsair MP600 Core XT, are slower and use QLC. The heatsink found on the Addlink A93 and other SSDs preclude them from laptop use and can add a little cost. Otherwise, the MP44 will have some competition at lower capacities, but it is worth a look if you can find it at the right price.

TB kapacitású meghajtókat akkor érdemes választani, amikor még nincs hatalmas mennyiségű film-, zene és játékgyűjteménye. Egy 1 TB kapacitású SSD meghajtó elegendő hellyel rendelkezik az operációs rendszernek és komolyabb játékoknak, bőséges helyet hagyva a jövőben érkező programoknak és fájloknak. But first, the shape issue. Any M.2 drive you are looking at will be labeled with a four- or five-digit number as part of its specifications or model name. It's a measurement, in millimeters: The first two numbers define the drive's width, the second two the length. We mentioned NVMe above. NVMe is another technical hurdle to consider, because systems and motherboards need board-level support for these drives to be bootable. All late-model motherboards now support NVMe M.2 drives, but older boards are not guaranteed to support booting from an NVMe-based drive. Outside of new motherboards, these high-bandwidth, NVMe-capable slots are also found in some recent laptops. Also note that in some cases, a laptop may support a PCI Express NVMe drive, but it may be soldered to the motherboard and thus not upgradable. So, if you're thinking of upgrading a recent laptop or convertible, be sure to consult your manual very closely before buying one of these drives. An M.2 drive is a small form factor storage device, which directly interfaces with the motherboard. You can find M.2 drives in a variety of lengths with the most popular form factor being 80mm long. These drives can connect to a motherboard via one of two interfaces, SATA or NVMe. When choosing your M.2 drive, it is important to understand what type of drive your motherboard supports, as both SATA and NVMe drives feature different keying on their connectors. SATA drives have two indents into their connector, while NVMe feature a single indent. Egy jó minőségű SSD meghajtó a gyors számítógép alapeleme, így ha PC vagy notebook vásárlása vagy bővítése előtt áll, érdemes megfontolnia SSD meghajtó beépítését számítógépébe.