Adata quietly rolls out the smallest USB 4 external SSD to date, and its fastest portable SSD ever
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David Wilson
At CES 2025, Adata unveiled the SE940, its debut USB 4 portable SSD, boasting impressive read/write speeds of up to 4GBps. Positioned as the smallest commercially available USB 4 external SSD, this sleek device uses a cutting-edge single-chip controller from Silicon Motion for stable power-efficient performance. Equipped with a built-in fingerprint reader and storage options of up to 8TB, the SE940 sets a new benchmark for portable SSD performance. Alongside this innovation, Adata revealed a lineup of storage solutions including the XPG MARS 970 Storm and Blade Gen 5 M.2 NVMe SSDs with speeds of up to 14 GB/s read and 12 GB/s write, as well as the SR800 and SR820 portable SSDs offering speeds of up to 20GB and capacities of up to 4TB. Additionally, the company introduced the SDXC SD 8.0 Express memory card, leveraging PCIe 3.0 x2 for speeds up to 1600 MB/s reads and 1200 MB/s writes. Looking to the future, the tech market eagerly anticipates further advancements in USB 4 external SSDs throughout 2025.
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