- The SE940 is Adata’s first portable USB 4 SSD
- It reaches up to 4 GB/s read/write
- Expect many more USB 4 external SSDs to launch 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 touts the SE940 as the smallest commercially available USB 4 external SSD.
It can reach speeds of up to 4,000 MB/s reading and writing data. This makes it not only the fastest portable SSD in the Adata 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 operates 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, media work, or backups.
Adata also announced several other SSDs at CES. The XPG MARS 970 Storm and Blade are NVMe Gen 5 M.2 SSDs (up to 8TB) that deliver speeds of up to 14GB/s read and 12GB/s write.
The company also announced the SR800 and SR820, portable SSDs offering speeds of up to 20GB, USB 3.2 Gen 2, and capacity of up to 4TB.
To conclude, Adata announced the SDXC SD 8.0 Express memory card which leverages PCIe 3.0 x2 for speeds of up to 1,600 MB/s read and 1,200 MB/s write.
