https://www.kingston.eu.org/Product news, buying guides and market analysis for memory and storage.enhttps://www.kingston.eu.org/2026/10/microsd-express-switch-2-guide.htmlhttps://www.kingston.eu.org/2026/10/microsd-express-switch-2-guide.htmlSun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0700Nintendo's Switch 2 made an obscure memory-card standard mandatory overnight: microSD Express . Your drawer full of old microSD cards will not work for Switch 2 game stor…https://www.kingston.eu.org/2026/10/kingston-xs2000-vs-xs1000-portable-ssd.htmlhttps://www.kingston.eu.org/2026/10/kingston-xs2000-vs-xs1000-portable-ssd.htmlSun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0700The two pocket-sized portable SSDs look nearly identical, but the XS2000 (up to 2,000MB/s) and XS1000 (up to 1,050MB/s) serve different buyers. If you are trying to pick …https://www.kingston.eu.org/2026/10/enterprise-vs-consumer-ssd-prices-2026.htmlhttps://www.kingston.eu.org/2026/10/enterprise-vs-consumer-ssd-prices-2026.htmlSun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0700SSD prices are up across the board in 2026 — but not evenly. Enterprise SSD prices 2026 are the outlier: analysts forecast enterprise SSD price hikes of 23–28% for Q4 202…https://www.kingston.eu.org/2026/10/usb4-vs-usb32-flash-drives.htmlhttps://www.kingston.eu.org/2026/10/usb4-vs-usb32-flash-drives.htmlSun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0700Flash drives grew up. The stick you once used for PowerPoint files now comes in USB4 flavors promising 3,000 MB/s — faster than the internal SSD of many laptops. But the …https://www.kingston.eu.org/2026/10/usb4-portable-ssd-2026.htmlhttps://www.kingston.eu.org/2026/10/usb4-portable-ssd-2026.htmlSun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0700USB4 portable SSDs advertising 3,000–3,800MB/s are the new halo product in external storage — and on paper, a USB4 portable SSD looks like the biggest leap external drive…https://www.kingston.eu.org/2026/10/u2-vs-edsff-enterprise-ssd-form-factors.htmlhttps://www.kingston.eu.org/2026/10/u2-vs-edsff-enterprise-ssd-form-factors.htmlSun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0700Enterprise SSDs like the DC3000ME ship in U.2 , but the industry is steadily shifting toward EDSFF E3.S . If you spec servers, the U.2 vs EDSFF question will land on your…https://www.kingston.eu.org/2026/10/kingston-dc2000b-boot-drive-servers.htmlhttps://www.kingston.eu.org/2026/10/kingston-dc2000b-boot-drive-servers.htmlSun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0700Nobody benchmarks boot drives, which is exactly why they fail at the worst moment. The DC2000B is purpose-built for the job most data centers underthink: booting the serv…https://www.kingston.eu.org/2026/10/tlc-vs-qlc-nand-endurance-2026.htmlhttps://www.kingston.eu.org/2026/10/tlc-vs-qlc-nand-endurance-2026.htmlSun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0700Buried in every SSD review is a three-letter acronym that quietly determines how long the drive will last and how it behaves under pressure: the NAND type. TLC (triple-le…https://www.kingston.eu.org/2026/10/ssd-over-provisioning-guide.htmlhttps://www.kingston.eu.org/2026/10/ssd-over-provisioning-guide.htmlSun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0700Every SSD you buy already hides some of its NAND from you — and that is a good thing. That hidden space, called over-provisioning , is what keeps the drive fast and long-…https://www.kingston.eu.org/2026/10/ssd-firmware-update-guide.htmlhttps://www.kingston.eu.org/2026/10/ssd-firmware-update-guide.htmlSun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0700SSD firmware is the invisible software running on your drive's controller — and unlike your operating system, it never nags you to update. Most users never touch it, whic…https://www.kingston.eu.org/2026/10/ssd-endurance-ai-era-dwpd.htmlhttps://www.kingston.eu.org/2026/10/ssd-endurance-ai-era-dwpd.htmlSun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0700AI workloads do not just consume GPU cycles — they punish storage. Checkpointing multi-hundred-gigabyte model states every few minutes turns SSD endurance from a footnote…https://www.kingston.eu.org/2026/10/nas-ssd-cache-guide-2026.htmlhttps://www.kingston.eu.org/2026/10/nas-ssd-cache-guide-2026.htmlSun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0700Your NAS is full of hard drives, and someone told you an SSD cache will make it fly. Sometimes they are right. Often, the money is better spent elsewhere. SSD caching for…https://www.kingston.eu.org/2026/10/pcie5-ssd-heatsink-motherboard-compatibility.htmlhttps://www.kingston.eu.org/2026/10/pcie5-ssd-heatsink-motherboard-compatibility.htmlSun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0700PCIe 5.0 SSDs deliver sequential speeds north of 12,000 MB/s — roughly double the previous generation. The price of that speed is heat: Gen5 controllers draw substantiall…https://www.kingston.eu.org/2026/10/nvme-vs-sata-ssd-2026.htmlhttps://www.kingston.eu.org/2026/10/nvme-vs-sata-ssd-2026.htmlSun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0700The SATA SSD was the upgrade that converted millions of PC users a decade ago — the jump from a spinning hard drive to any SSD remains the single biggest responsiveness u…https://www.kingston.eu.org/2026/10/nvme-raid-0-1-setup-guide.htmlhttps://www.kingston.eu.org/2026/10/nvme-raid-0-1-setup-guide.htmlSun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0700Two NVMe SSDs are fast. Two NVMe SSDs in RAID 0 are, on paper, twice as fast — 24,000 MB/s sequential reads that look spectacular in benchmarks. But paper speed and usefu…https://www.kingston.eu.org/2026/10/nvme-enclosure-buying-guide-2026.htmlhttps://www.kingston.eu.org/2026/10/nvme-enclosure-buying-guide-2026.htmlSun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0700Have a spare NVMe SSD from a laptop upgrade? An NVMe enclosure turns it into a portable drive that can outperform most off-the-shelf external SSDs — often for less money.…https://www.kingston.eu.org/2026/10/nand-output-cuts-ssd-prices-2027.htmlhttps://www.kingston.eu.org/2026/10/nand-output-cuts-ssd-prices-2027.htmlSun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0700NAND flash manufacturers are doing what they always do when prices run hot: throttling supply to keep them there. Fresh production cuts announced through 2026 point to el…https://www.kingston.eu.org/2026/10/laptop-ram-upgrade-guide-2026.htmlhttps://www.kingston.eu.org/2026/10/laptop-ram-upgrade-guide-2026.htmlSun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0700That laptop that felt fast two years ago is now gasping every time you open a second Electron app — and the culprit is often memory, not the processor. A RAM upgrade is t…https://www.kingston.eu.org/2026/10/kingston-kc3000-vs-fury-renegade-ssd.htmlhttps://www.kingston.eu.org/2026/10/kingston-kc3000-vs-fury-renegade-ssd.htmlSun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0700PCIe 5.0 SSDs grab the headlines, but the two PCIe 4.0 flagships — the KC3000 and the FURY Renegade SSD — remain the rational buy for most builders in 2026, and the stron…https://www.kingston.eu.org/2026/10/clone-drive-new-ssd-no-reinstall.htmlhttps://www.kingston.eu.org/2026/10/clone-drive-new-ssd-no-reinstall.htmlSun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0700Upgrading to a new SSD does not have to mean a weekend of reinstalling Windows, re-downloading applications, and re-entering license keys. Learning how to clone SSD to ne…