The Beetle X31 by SK hynix is a portable SSD that comes in three capacity options: 512GB, 1TB, and 2TB. This largest of them, features read and write speeds reaching 1,000MB/s, provided by ...

The SK Hynix Beetle X31 1TB portable SSD offers read speeds of up to 1,050 MB per second in a great looking Champagne Gold colored aluminum casing. It's hit its lowest price ever at $74.99.

Below, we’ll go over what NVMe, SATA, and M.2 mean in SSDs, how they compare to each other, and which one you should pick to make sure you’re getting the best SSD.

The cheap SSD ultimately finished the test at 13,000 IOPS and 10,225 ms, compared to the Kingston's 78,000 IOPS and 1,630 ms. It was a similar story with 4K random writes.

M.2, on the other hand, is actually a type of form factor. You can find both NVMe M.2 SSDs and SATA M.2 SSDs in the wild. Sometimes product advertisements or summaries use “M.2 SSD” to imply ...