Six speedy M.2 SSDs. A pile of benchmarks. And a whole hill of specs. But what have we learned? Firstly, the quality of current SSDs is very high. There absolutely isn’t a dud here. Every single drive would be an electrifying upgrade for a system based on something like an old SATA SSD. Indeed, it’s remarkable to think 7GB-plus per second of bandwidth is rapidly becoming the norm. You don’t have to be old to remember when that kind of bandwidth was decent for a CPU, let alone storage.
If there is a disappointment it involves 4K random access performance. It’s those tiny little data requests and writes that can make the difference to how snappy your PC feels in regular use. While random access throughput has improved thanks to…
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APC (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2022