Best SSDs: From SATA to PCIe 5.0, from budget to premium

Summary

Solid state drives, or SSDs, are singularly responsible for vast improvements to PC performance over the last decade or so. Taking the place of mechanical hard drives, SSDs transformed once-ponderous boot times into being virtually instantaneous, programs and games far more responsive, and the frustratingly long large-file loads largely a thing of a past. If you’re not yet using an SSD, you’re missing out. If you already have an older SSD, you might consider upgrading it for the even speedier performance offered by cutting-edge PCIe 4.0 and 5.0 designs — if your PC sports those technologies…

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