About DrivePick
An independent, spec-based guide to internal NVMe SSDs, internal SATA SSDs, and portable and external SSDs.
DrivePick is published by Informative Buy, a small independent business run by Gerardo Galicia in Venice, California. We built it because SSDs are still sold on peak brochure speeds, while the consistently published figures — official sequential read and official sequential write — sit on the maker product page. Official capacity, official endurance (TBW), official interface, official form factor and official warranty are shown as facts when that official page publishes them. Official TBW is not scored, because many official Samsung US product pages and official portable pages in this set omit it. Here, every product is compared on official published fields, scored with a formula printed on the page, and linked back to its sources.
Today the site covers 3 categories, 197 products and 32 head-to-head comparisons of official internal NVMe SSDs, official internal SATA SSDs, and official portable and external SSDs.
How we work
- Official maker pages first. Scored specs come from official Samsung, Crucial and SanDisk product pages (SanDisk also publishes official WD_BLACK, WD Blue, WD Green, WD Red and WD pages). Each product links the official page we used.
- Blanks stay blank. If the official specification does not list a figure we show "Not listed" and score it at the category minimum. We do not fill gaps from retailer listings. Official random IOPS and official TBW are often published on a different official basis across brands, or omitted; official TBW is shown as a fact when published and is not scored.
- Finish variants share a page. Official color or regional variants with identical scored fields are consolidated onto one page.
- Safety notes are specific. Power the computer down before installing an internal SSD, confirm the official form factor and official interface, and recycle a used drive through the maker's official program or a certified e-waste program.
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Makers update specification pages. If you spot an outdated figure, a broken source or a product we should add, please tell us and we'll fix it.