The Rise of Fake SSDs: Spotting Counterfeit Drives

Recently, I have been reading many forum posts, articles, and watching YouTube videos about the fake SSDs. They are packaged in the same product boxes and designed to imitate the real ones. I am not talking about those unnamed portable drives that can be detected easily at first glance. This is happening with popular brands […]

Kingston IronKey Drives: Data Protection at its Peak

So, I was procrastinating on a deadline the other day, scrolling through some news, when I stumbled on a story that made me spill my tea. Some poor soul at a big organization lost a plain, unencrypted USB drive packed with sensitive data, and it cost them a fortune in fines. I mean, ouch. It’s

Crucial T710: Another Beast in the Gen 5.0 Jungle

After the big launches of Kingston Fury Renegade G5, Samsung 9100 Pro, and WD Black SN8100, Crucial has officially announced its 3rd Gen 5.0 NVMe on the 19th of May. The Crucial T710 was introduced by the company at the Computex Taipei 2025. The launch date is the 1st of June 2025. This launch follows

TeamGroup’s Crazy New SSD Coolers: Genius or Just Plain Extra?

So, TeamGroup showed up at Computex 2025 with some wild new ways to keep your SSDs frosty, because apparently, storage drives need liquid cooling now? Yep, they unveiled three new cooling gadgets: the T-Force Al-Flow X, the GD120T SSD AiO Cooler, and the DUO360V2 CPU+SSD AiO Cooler. Some of these look like overkill, but hey,

WD Black SN8100: Is it the fastest Gen 5.0 NVMe out there?

Sandisk announces the new WD Black SN8100, promising speeds up to 14.9 GB/s. The drive is out, and reviews are being published. Name WD Black SN8100 Samsung 9100 Pro Crucial T705 Flash Memory Kioxia’s BiCS8 TLC 3D CBA NAND 236-Layer Samsung TLC NAND 232-Layer Micron TLC NAND Form Factor M.2 2280 M.2 2280 M.2 2280

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