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A WD Blue SN5100 ready to be installed inside a gaming PC.

Sandisk WD Blue SN5100 NVMe SSD review

By Zak Storey published

Score: 88% Massive generational leap takes the 5000 line to the next level.

Score: 88%
SSDs float in the Cyber Monday deal void.

Cyber Week SSD deals 2025: The fastest PC storage at the lowest price per GB

By Dave James last updated

Cyber Week Black Friday and Cyber Monday may be receding into the past, but the deals season isn't over just yet.

Cyber Week
A photo of an 8 TB Kingston Fury Renegade G5 SSD, resting on the open page of a book

Kingston Fury Renegade G5 8 TB NVMe SSD review

By Zak Storey published

Score: 88% A spectacular hardware combo that we've seen before, packing mountains of storage. And a moutainous price tag, unfortunately.

Score: 88%
A Lexar NQ780 SSD installed inside a gaming PC and on top of a graphics card.

Lexar NQ780 4 TB NVMe SSD review

By Zak Storey published

Score: 75% Old tech for a modern era.

Score: 75%
Samsung 990 Pro 2TB on a grey background

It's not just RAM—SSDs could soon cost way more too, and it's all downhill from here

By Monica J. White published

News Throw the GPUs in there too, why don't you?

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Black Friday listing image with a Silicon Power SSD featured

Black Friday SSD deals 2025

By Jacob Ridley last updated

Black Friday Black Friday is over, but if you're looking for the ultimate storage upgrade, it's over to the Cyber Monday SSD deals.

Black Friday
A photo of a Silicon Power SSD mounted in an M.2 slot on an AMD motherboard, with an 'Ask PC Gamer' logo in the top right hand corner

Five things I always tell people before they buy their first SSD

By Nick Evanson last updated

I've been buying and using SSDs for over 20 years, and here's my quick guide to making sure you get the right one for your gaming PC.

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WD_Black SN7100 and BiWin NV7400 SSDs on an orange background

Best SSD for gaming in 2025: the fastest and the best value solid state drives to perk up your PC

By Dave James last updated

Speedy storage Give your gaming PC a serious speed boost with the best SSD for gaming.

Speedy storage
An image showing three internal NVMe SSDs angled and lined together, against a pink background with a white border

Amazon October Prime Day SSD deals

By Nick Evanson last updated

Prime Day Deals An SSD can do wonders for your load times and we're still seeing some great deals on them even though the October Prime Day sales have officially ended.

Prime Day Deals
A screenshot from a video by DirectorFeng on YouTube, showing the use of a CNC mill to remove the SSD module from an iPhone 17 Pro Max SOC.

Milling the SSD back into sand is one way of upgrading your iPhone 17's storage and it makes a laptop upgrade look like a four-piece jigsaw puzzle by comparison

By Nick Evanson published

News Main difference just happens to be a casual bit of CNC milling.

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