Manfrotto has been a steady name in photography since Lino Manfrotto was a photo reporter in the early ’60s in Italy. His original passion has developed into a a long standing and successful business in the camera industry. Primarily known for their stands, camera bags and studio lighting and accessories, it was only a matter of time until Manfrotto jumped …
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Lexar Professional NM800 Pro SSD Review
Up on the Test Bench today we have the latest and greatest from Lexar, the Lexar Professional NM800 Pro NVMe SSD. This SSD has a very compact heatsink which makes it the perfect addition to a Sony Playstation 5 gaming system. Let’s add to that the fact that the makeup of this SSD isn’t your run of the mill copycat …
Read More »KIOXIA XG8 Gen 4 2TB SSD Review – The Best in OEM Storage
A rather unfortunate and all too common thing we have seen throughout the years is substandard third party components within electronic equipment. A perfect example might be a storage device in a laptop where, most often, the SSD choice has been poorly thought out by the company. We have posted a lot of notebook and Ultrabook reviews throughout the years …
Read More »Lexar Professional CFExpess Type A Gold Series Memory Card and Reader Review
One of the biggest advances at the forefront of digital technology in the past few years has to do with data storage and the introduction of CFExpress cards. As an avid photographer and digital enthusiast, myself… I wonder what took so long and… in fact, I wonder why the digital industry has lagged so far behind when we consider the …
Read More »Plextor M10P 2TB Gen4 NVMe SSD Review – A Rock Star with Unheard of Small File Transfer Speeds
Perhaps one of the odd ducks in the SSD space has always been Plextor. Their SSDs have always been amongst the best, but for some reason, they never gained the recognition they deserved. That’s not just my thought I am sure as reviewers historically have had nothing but good to say about Plextor SSDs. They are one of the very …
Read More »XPG GAMMIX S70 Blade NVMe M.2 SSD Review – 7GB/s at Low Temps in a 11th Gen Laptop
We have been testing a new SSD that is about to be introduced by XPG and something about this SSD caught our eye. It is in the XPG marketing pitch actually. A highlight of this marketing states that the XPG GAMMIX S70 Blade NVMe Gen 4 SSD is ‘Perfect for Compact and Thin Devices’ and that this SSD is ‘Cool …
Read More »DataLocker DL4 FE Encrypted Drive Review – Data Security’s New Standard
There was a time not so long ago when data security was a nice-to-have. It was something thought about after the fact and, in most cases, much too late. As much as your online security should be front and center in your mind, so should the security of those documents that could cause you irreversible harm if they ever got …
Read More »Crucial X6 4TB Portable SSD Review – High Speed 4TB Portable SSD at a Low Price Point
In September of 2020, we did a review on Crucial’s newly released X6 Portable SSD which had a great price point and decent capacity. Its performance was a bit lower than we had seen in the previous Crucial X8, the former providing current 1GB/s data transfer through USB 3.2 Gen 2 while the newer X6 maxed out at 540MB/s because …
Read More »Intel SSD6 670P NVMe M.2 SSD Review (2TB) – Unbelievable QLC Performance
Many many not consider how SSDs have changed from generation to generation but, throughout the years, the push forward has been increased on capacity and top tier performance. In order to achieve a larger capacity, the flash memory footprint has to be reduced and layers stacked, much like we see in apartment buildings, for the most part. The challenge of …
Read More »Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus NVMe Gen 4 SSD Review (1/2TB) – Top Speed with Great Temps
Gen 4 SSDs have been available for just over a year now and the two most talked about characteristics just happen to speak to the good and the bad. The good of course has had us watching storage speeds jumping from 3.5GB/s to 5GB/s and now 7GB/s becoming the norm. The bad is the fact that Gen 4 necessitated additional …
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