Subj : Adata quietly rolls out the smallest USB 4 external SSD to date, To : All From : TechnologyDaily Date : Sat Jan 11 2025 11:15:05 Adata quietly rolls out the smallest USB 4 external SSD to date, and its fastest portable SSD ever Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 11:03:00 +0000 Description: The Adata XPG SE940 is the smallest USB 4 portable SSD, delivering up to 4,000 MB/s read and write speeds. FULL STORY ======================================================================The SE940 is Adata's first USB 4 portable SSD It reaches up to 4GBps on read/write Expect far more USB 4 external SSDs to launch in 2025 At CES 2025 , Adata introduced a range of new storage products, including the Adata XPG SE940, a portable SSD which marks the first time Adata is using USB 4 technology. Adata is also tipping the SE940 as the smallest USB 4 external SSD to be commercially available. It can reach speeds of up to 4,000 MB/s for reading and writing data. This makes it not only the fastest portable SSD in Adatas line-up but also a contender in the broader external storage market. New benchmark for portable SSD performance The SE940 uses a modern single-chip controller from Silicon Motion, which gives stable performance, uses power efficiently, and works smoothly. It also has a built-in fingerprint reader, and comes with storage options of up to 8 TB, providing plenty of space for big files, multimedia work, or backups . Adata also announced several other SSD s at CES. The XPG MARS 970 Storm and Blade are Gen 5 M.2 NVMe SSDs (up to 8TB) that offer up to 14 GB/s read and 12 GB/s write speeds. The company also announced the SR800 and SR820, portable SSDs that offer up to 20GB speeds, USB 3.2 Gen 2 and up to 4TB capacity. To wrap things up, Adata announced the SDXC SD 8.0 Express memory card which leverages PCIe 3.0 x2 for speeds up to 1600 MB/s reads and 1200 MB/s writes. You might also like These are the fastest external SSDs in the market It's 2025 and yes, you can add a DVD drive (and three SSDs) to Lenovo's answer to Apple's 27-inch iMac We've also listed the largest SSD and hard drives on the market ====================================================================== Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/pro/software-services/adata-quietly-rolls-out-the-sm allest-usb-4-external-ssd-to-date-and-its-fastest-portable-ssd-ever --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Linux/64) * Origin: tqwNet Technology News (1337:1/100) .