The Nextorage’s beefy heatsink is designed for consoles but works pretty well in a PC.
NEVER HEARD of Nextorage? Neither had we before this 2TB SSD landed in the Maximum PC labs. However, Nextorage is no obscure startup, even if its recent history is a little complicated. The company was born in 2019, founded by Sony as a direct subsidiary of Sony Storage Media Solutions Corporation, the idea being to produce SSDs for the PlayStation series of consoles. However, in early 2022, none other than Phison—a company famous for SSD controller chips—acquired a controlling stake in Nextorage and here we are reviewing the Nextorage NEM-PA 2TB, an M.2 with a broader remit that includes the PC.