- The SE940 is Adata’s first USB 4 portable SSD
- Reaches up to 4 GBps read/write
- Expect many more USB 4 external SSDs to be released in 2025
At CES 2025, Adata introduced a range of new storage products, including the Adata XPG SE940, a portable SSD that marks the first time Adata has used USB 4 technology.
Adata also considers the SE940 the smallest USB 4 external SSD commercially available.
It can reach speeds of up to 4000 MB/s for reading and writing data. This makes it not only the fastest portable SSD in Adata’s lineup, but also a contender in the broader external storage market.
New benchmark for portable SSD performance
The SE940 uses a modern single-chip controller from Silicon Motion, which provides stable performance, uses power efficiently and runs smoothly.
It also has a built-in fingerprint reader and comes with storage options of up to 8TB, providing plenty of space for large files, multimedia work, or backups.
Adata also announced several other SSDs at CES. The XPG MARS 970 Storm and Blade are NVMe M.2 Gen 5 SSDs (up to 8TB) that offer read speeds of up to 14GB/s and 12GB/s write.
The company also announced the SR800 and SR820, portable SSDs that offer speeds of up to 20 GB, USB 3.2 Gen 2 and up to 4 TB of capacity.
To conclude, Adata announced the SDXC SD 8.0 Express memory card that leverages PCIe 3.0 x2 for speeds of up to 1600 MB/s read and 1200 MB/s write.
