Biwin's new BL130 Mini SSD unlocks a new era of storage for gaming handhelds

Portable, handheld gaming is growing in popularity. From Valve's Steam Deck to the ROG Xbox Ally X to new hardware on the horizon powered by Intel's impressive new Arc G3 Extreme processor, like the Acer Predator Atlas 8 and MSI Claw 8 EX AI+. Naturally, when it comes to PC gaming, expandable storage is important, but so is speed. At Computex 2026, we got to see an innovative and impressive handheld gaming storage solution from Biwin in the form of its new, tiny BL130.

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It's a single-chip SSD designed specifically for gaming handhelds, about the size of an SD Card, and delivering exponentially faster performance. Measuring 15 x 17 x 1.4 mm, the Biwin BL130 is an impressive bit of SSD engineering, as the company has managed to pack the controller and the NAND flash onto a single chip or package. What makes it even more interesting is that it uses a PCIe Gen5 x2 interface, which delivers full Gen3-like speeds in a compact form factor.

And with that, you've got Sequential Read speeds of up to 3,700 MB/s or 3.7 GB/s and Sequential Write speeds of 3,400 MB/s or 3.4 GB/s. As impressive as those numbers are for such a tiny little SSD, it's the all-important Random Read and Random Write performance that makes it the ideal storage expansion solution for gaming handhelds.

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With Random Read specs of 850K IOPS and Random Write specs of 800K IOPS, this is fantastic for gaming, as these metrics reflect how games access data when loading assets and other information. This means the BL130 lives up to its promise of being an SSD built for the modern era of portable gaming. Biwin notes that this new SSD will be available in 512GB, 1TB, and even 2TB storage capacities when it launches later this year.