ssd upgrade

OK, first off let me apologize for the blurry pics. I'm getting older and taking a photo of my monitor so combined with shaky hands it's not the best, but you can make it out LOL. I ran CrystalDisk Mark8 on my laptop pre and post SSD swap. I went from a Samsung 860 EVO to a PNY CS900. The new...

Hey, I’ve been looking for quite a while and I haven’t gotten to any conclusion. I have an Asus P8Z77-V LX Motherboard and I would like to install an SSD, for what I know, as long as the MB has a SATA 2 or SATA 3 port, any SSD with those specs should fit, I may be wrong. I wanted to buy 1 ADATA...

Hello fellas. I have asus strix x99 gaming,i7 6800k,32gb ram,asusgtx 1080gaming,corsair hx1050 powersupply i have 1 samsung ssd 970 evo nme m.2 250gb&and i also have the 960evonme m.2 500gb and also a samsung 850 evo 500gb all new and i have to start the windows format ,i know i should use the...

Installed two new and identical SSDs and went through BIOS to set up RAID 1. Completed setup and tried to boot with boot order UEFI Windows boot manager followed by UEFI BD/DVD. All others are disabled. My old boot drive is still plugged in and works when RAID is turned off. I am running Windows...

We have a brand new giveaway lined up for the AnandTech community, courtesy of our friends at Toshiba. We teamed up with Toshiba to bring you a giveaway for four brand new SSDs. Up for grabs this time are two units each of the external OCZ XS700 and the internal OCZ RC100. Boost your speed and...

this last 6+ year, I have play and tested a lot of different SSDs, intel x25-m x25-e 520 530 (1500 pro ) S3500, and E7000(S3520). samsung 840 , 840 pro , 840 evo 850 pro, micron m500, m600, Sandisk extreme II, x400, z400s , toshiba's HG6 and so one. I buy them play test a bit and then sell...

As the title suggests, which one would be better for gaming? i play at 1440p @ 144hz but anything close to 60 is acceptable, so a strict 144fps is not mandatory. my system specs are as follows i7 8700(non K) Asus Prime Z370 32 GB DDR4 3200 Mhz Cas 16 Ram (2 x 16 GB) 240 GB SSD (Boot drive)...

I have a Lenovo T510 laptop that I just put a new SSD in (Crucial MX300, 525 GB). Simple, after replacing the old drive with the new SSD it's time to install a clean version of Windows cause there's nothing on the old drive I wanted. Having installed Windows a million times, from 3.1 on up to...