You don’t really expect external storage to be fast. Portable storage is there for its convenience, but often they have such slow transfer speeds that using them for anything beyond the transfer of a few smaller files is a bit of a drag. Largely because of their very nature, they have to use an interface that’s not especially fast. The X8 from Crucial fixes that dilemma, provided you have the right hardware.

It’s pretty simple. Adding an SSD to your desktop or laptop is the simplest and most effective way to breathe life into an older machine, or dramatically speed up even a newer. Because they don’t rely on platters and all of that physical movement, solid-state drives are unfathomably faster than regular old hard drives. And, when they’re NVMe drives, they’re …

Good news, because we’ve got plenty of Birds of Prey tickets to give away for both Joburg and Cape Town fans thanks to our fine friends over at Empire Entertainment!

Good news, because we’ve got plenty of Birds of Prey tickets to give away for both Joburg and Cape Town fans thanks to our fine friends over at Empire Entertainment!

Good news, because we’ve got plenty of Birds of Prey tickets to give away for both Joburg and Cape Town fans thanks to our fine friends over at Empire Entertainment!

Thanks to the fine folks at Crucial, we’ve got one of their 500GB P1 NVMe M.2 SSD’s to give away. It’s worth about R1400, and it'll give your PC a massive boost.

In case you hadn’t noticed, Rainbow Six Siege’s fourth season of its incredibly successful four years in the business launched yesterday. Called Shifting Tides, it’s been live on the Test Servers for a while (even giving us a glimpse of the local servers in their testing phase). Now Shifting Tides is live proper on all platforms. Shifting Tides makes some …

For the last three weeks, we’ve been asking you to guess which high profile film starring some of the best actors in Hollywood and centering around a murder mystery, was due for an imminent release. Because we’re all idiots here at Critical Hit who can barely tie our own shoelaces without needing a periodic reminder to breathe in and out, we had no idea what the movie was!