When 2.5-inch SATA SSDs finally became affordable, the popularity of hard drives naturally saw a huge dip. Switching from a hard drive to a SATA SSD promised an instant boost to system ...
In fact, a new PCIe 5.0 M.2 SSD can read and write data at 25x the speed of even the fastest SATA drives. But which gaming SSD is right for your needs? The latest PC games often have large ...
For a long time, PC gamers fitting an SSD to their rig would have used a 2.5-inch drive with a SATA interface. The best one to get was a Crucial MX500 and it was so good that it topped the charts ...
But, as there is a hard limit on the number of M.2 slots on your motherboard, there is still a place for SATA SSDs as secondary storage. And the Crucial MX500 is one of the best.