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A collage of M.2 SSDs from Lexar and Western Digital against a gradient blue background, with a PC Gamer Recommended logo in the corner

Best M.2 SSDs for gaming in 2024: my top picks for blazing fast storage

By Jeremy Laird last updated

High speed Our choices for the best NVMe M.2 SSDs give you blisteringly fast load times.

High speed
The WD Black SN850X and the Lexar NM790 NVMe SSDs on a pink gradient background with the PC Gamer recommended logo in the top right

Best SSD for gaming in 2024: the speediest SSDs I personally recommend

By Jeremy Laird last updated

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

Speedy storage
A promotional image of a Crucial MX500 SATA SSD resting on a computer motherboard

It's the end of an era: Crucial starts calling time on its popular SATA SSD, the MX500

By Nick Evanson published

news Was it a good SSD? No. It was the best.

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An image of the best external hard drives on a red background with the PC Gamer recommended badge

Best external hard drives in 2024

By Nick Evanson last updated

TB on the go Grab one of the best external hard drives to increase your storage space or backup your PC.

TB on the go
A photo of a Team Group MP44 SSD next to its retail packaging

Team Group MP44 4 TB SSD review

By Nick Evanson published

Big value Big capacity, big performance, big value.

Big value
A rendered image used to promote the DirectStorage feature test in 3DMark

Check out your gaming PC's storage chops with 3DMark's new DirectStorage benchmark

By Nick Evanson published

news A speedy SSD makes all the difference but the Devil is in the details

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Phison Pascari D250V 128 TB SSD on black background

World's biggest PCIe SSD immediately squashed by even bigger and faster PCIe SSD

By Jacob Fox published

News Call that an SSD? THIS is an SSD.

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The Micron 6650 ION E3.S PCIe 5.0 60 TB SSD on a black background

Micron's introduced the first PCIe 5 60 TB SSD and it could house 375 Stalker 2 installs, or even better, 35,294 Crab Champions installs

By Jacob Fox published

News Yoooo now that's a BIG SSD.

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A close-up of a IT engineer / technician insert a backup tape in a backup robot in a rack.

Due to export restrictions, Huawei has been forced to develop a weird hybrid SSD/tape storage drive for data archiving

By Nick Evanson published

news SSD speed with tape's low cost and reliability. A match made in heaven or the worst of both worlds?

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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 published

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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