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WD Black adds five new external storage drives, including 2TB SuperSpeed SSD
WD's Black range of gaming SSDs just got a little bit bigger today, as they've announced five new external storage devices that will sit alongside their flagship Black SN750 NVMe SSD. Four of them are traditional hard drive disks, or HDDs (more on those in a sec), but the one I'm most interested in is the WD Black P50, an external SSD that has, and…
Feature: Solid state of the art
If you want Windows and games to load in a flash, then you should definitely have an SSD as your PC's primary drive. They're much faster than traditional hard disk drives, and you'll not only be able to get to your desktop in double-quick time when you first turn it on, but everything from copying files to loading up games will also feel much, much…
Feature: The second coming of SSDs?
Gigabyte Aorus NVMe Gen 4 review: The first PCIe 4.0 SSD has arrived
One of the big attractions of choosing a new AMD Ryzen 3000 build at the moment is the fact it supports the new, super fast PCIe 4.0 standard. You'll need to pair your new 3rd Gen Ryzen CPU with one of AMD's equally new (not to mention expensive) X570 motherboards to make use of it, of course, but the potential benefits are massive - particularly…
Feature: Bolt from the blue
SSD prices may have been falling over recent months, but adding a super fast NVMe SSD to your PC is still one heck of an expensive upgrade, especially if you're after something like our [block id="604473" title="Best gaming SSD"] champion, the Samsung 970 Evo. A 250GB stick of Evo goodness will set you back around £80 / $85 these days, with prices pretty much doubling…
Have Anthem’s loading times been improved by the Day One patch?
Anthem's Day One (minus two) patch has finally arrived, with one of the big 'High Level' fixes being its atrocious loading times, specifically when it comes to what Bioware refer to as 'older disk drives'. But how much have they actually improved by? Well, I've gone and re-tested the same HDD, SSD and NVMe SSD I tried on Tuesday to see what's what.
We put Anthem’s loading times to the test: HDD vs SSD vs NVMe
Anthem doesn't technically come out until February 22, but those who pre-ordered the game have been jumping around Bioware's futuristic Iron Man fantasy since Friday - or at least some of them have, as a lot of people haven't been able to get past the game's interminably long loading screens. Indeed, sometimes the game takes so long to load that you're too far behind the…
Feature: A Pro-perly brilliant gaming SSD
When I tested Adata's XPG SX6000 Pro SSD at the end of last year, I called it a tempting budget alternative to some of our [block id="604473" title="Best gaming SSD"] champions such as the Samsung 970 Evo and WD Black 3D. The same could also be said of Adata's new XPG SX82000 Pro, which is more upmarket than its SX6000 Pro sibling with its claimed…
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The Samsung 970 Evo has been my [block id="604473" title="Best gaming SSD"] recommendation under £200 for quite some time now. By far the fastest and best value for money NVMe SSD you can buy right now, it's comfortably seen off competition from the new WD Black SN750, the old WD Black and Adata's XPG SX6000 Pro. But what happens when you take all that 970…
Feature: Paint it black
WD Black SN750 review: So close to the Samsung 970 Evo, yet so far
For reasons I cannot fathom and that are probably lost to the bowels of their marketing department, Western Digital have decided their high-performance Black line of NVMe SSDs were in need of a face lift for 2019, because apparently gum stick-sized storage drives don't look 'gamer-y' enough already. The result of their somewhat baffling nip and tuck is the Black SN750, which I think you'll…
Feature: Merry Dealsmas
The RPS Christmas gift guide and best PC gaming deals of the week – 21st December 2018
I imagine most of you have done your Christmas shopping already given its December 21 and just four days before a whole sleigh of stuffed turkey and roast potatoes arrives on our dinner plates, but just in case you're in need of a few last minute emergency gift ideas, your deals herald is here to provide. To that end, this is a slightly more rounded…
Feature: 4-bits of all right
Samsung 860 Qvo review: A fast, high-capacity SSD that’s excellent value
Black Friday and sales madness aside, high capacity SSDs still cost an absolute fortune. It's the main reason why so many of us still opt for small 250-500GB SSDs as our primary drive, and make do with larger, slower HDDs for storing big things like games and photos. Samsung's brand-new 860 Qvo, however, hopes to change all that by offering jumbo storage pockets at a…
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Is... is it over yet? Are the Black Friday and Cyber Monday PC gaming deals finally finished? Just a couple more hours to go now, you can do it deals herald, you can get through this. You've got a week and a half holiday coming up soon, just get through the afternoon and then you can go and lie in a dark room and not…
Black Friday is finally over for another year, but now there's a new deals train in town with a non-stop service to Cyber Monday. And reader, you've just boarded it. While a couple of these savings aren't quite as good as some of the best SSD deals we saw last week, the good news is that Cyber Monday has brought a whole bunch of new…
Feature: An offer you can't refuse - this time for our US readers
Build a Black Friday PC: The best 1080p gaming PC for under $590
Black Friday is a brilliant time for upgrading your PC on the cheap, but arguably it's an even better time for first-time PC builders looking to assemble all the necessary parts for the lowest price possible. Now I've already cribbed together a PC for UK builders that can play Plunkbat and Battlefield V on max settings at 1080p for under £600, but for US builders…
Feature: How to build a 1080p gaming PC on the cheap
Build a PC that runs Plunkbat and Battlefield V for £599 from these Black Friday deals
On this hallowed day o'deals that is Black Friday, I thought I'd take a small break from my epic deals hunting (all of which can be found in our jumbo Black Friday hub, by the way) to do something a bit more practical: tell you how to build a PC from the best Black Friday PC gaming deals that will run Plunkbat and Battlefield V…
The 960GB SanDisk SSD Plus is Amazon's latest Black Friday deal of the day right now (Friday November 23), but as many of you pointed out earlier in my Black Friday Best SSD deals round-up when I stuck the 480GB model in there as part of Ebuyer's Black Friday deals earlier in the week (apologies again for that, it's now been scrubbed from existence), it…
Feature: A valuable SSD Pro-position?
Adata XPG SX6000 Pro review: A budget alternative to Samsung’s 970 Evo
If you're after an NVMe SSD that doesn't cost the earth, then Adata's XPG SX6000 Pro is a tempting budget alternative to the high-end Samsung 970 Evos and WD Black 3D NVMe SSDs of this world. With prices starting at just £57 / $60 for its lowest 256GB model, this is one of the cheapest NVMe SSDs going right now, but is it worth the…
Samsung’s 970 Evo SSD is the new Amazon Black Friday deal of the day and it’s properly great
So long, Samsung T5 Black Friday deal, your day is done. Now it's the turn of the excellent Samsung 970 Evo SSD, the 500GB version of which can now be had for as little as £89 for the next 12 hours as part of the latest Amazon Black Friday deal of the day.
Get the portable Samsung T5 SSD for £95 in Amazon’s Black Friday deal of the day
The excellent Samsung T5 external SSD is Amazon's Black Friday deal of the day this fine Monday morning (November 19) and you can currently get the 500GB model for just £95, or the 1TB for £189. That's the lowest price both sizes capacities have been in quite some time, according to CamelCamelCamel, but neither is quite as big a saving as Amazon would have you…
Feature: The crucial next step for your PC?
Crucial's SSD line-up is in a bit of a funny place right now. As you may well have seen from our [block id="604473" title="Best gaming SSD"] rankings, their mid-tier MX500 SSD is currently cheaper than their entry-level BX300 SSD in practically all size categories above 120GB, and their latest BX500 SSD on test today only muddies the waters further. You would think, given its name,…
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