Storage

Storage is shelved here by what the media physically is — flash, platter, optical, magnetic — because that is the one split that stays true. How a drive connects is a property of the drive, so SATA, SAS and NVMe solid-state drives sit together and you filter by interface instead.

Solid-state drives (291)

Flash storage, whatever it plugs into.

• NVMe drives (148 records)
• SATA solid-state drives (133 records)
• SAS solid-state drives (10 records)

INTERFACES SEEN HERE: M.2, NVMe, PCI, PCIe 3.0, PCIe 4.0, PCIe 5.0, SAS, SATA, U.2, USB, mSATA

Hard disk drives (209)

Rotating magnetic platters, MFM through modern SATA.

• Hard disk drives (209 records)

INTERFACES SEEN HERE: PATA / IDE, PCI, SAS, SATA, SCSI, ST-506 / MFM, USB

Optical drives (223)

CD, DVD, Blu-ray readers and writers.

• Optical drives (223 records)

INTERFACES SEEN HERE: FireWire, PATA / IDE, SATA, SCSI, USB

Floppy drives (158)

8-inch, 5.25-inch and 3.5-inch mechanisms, plus emulators.

• Floppy drives (158 records)

INTERFACES SEEN HERE: ISA, PATA / IDE, PS/2, SCSI, ST-506 / MFM, USB

Removable media (191)

Cartridges, tape, flash cards and the drives that read them.

• Removable media (191 records)

INTERFACES SEEN HERE: Fibre Channel, FireWire, M.2, NVMe, PATA / IDE, PCI, PCIe 3.0, PCIe 4.0, SAS, SATA, SCSI, Thunderbolt, USB