Perhaps the most difficult thing about navigating through the incredible deals on Black Friday is the mass chaos and disorganization of it all. Some of us work all day and, well let’s face it… we really don’t want to have to try to find things through the mess of websites and sales. Let’s make it real easy, regardless of what …
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KILLER BLACK FRIDAY AMAZON TECH AND SSD DEALS
Before we start, I am always asked for this link to the Amazon Best Sellers List for SSDS! It may reflect some great pricing throughout the day and is a great resource whenever one is looking for the most popular and best value SSDs. Well today’s the day and if there is any time of the year to make the …
Read More »Lexar 800x 512GB Professional CompactFlash Card Review
In storage tech, there exists a golden triangle that consists of performance, capacity and value; this is no different for camera storage. In our last CompactFlash Card report, we awarded our Editor’s Choice to the Lexar Professional 1066x 128GB CF Card for its mind-boggling performance that blew away every storage card we have ever tested. That card, as well, came …
Read More »PNY Elite 480GB Portable SSD Review
One of the main aspects of the SSD world that stands fast is size; size is everything. Not only have we gone from capacity at 64GB in 2007 to several TB today, but also, the ability to reduce footprint size while increasing capacity (and performance) is key. Now… throw in value and the PNY Elite 480GB Portable SSD is going …
Read More »ADATA SE730 External SSD Review (250GB) – USB Type-C
Without a doubt this is the year of portable storage. Through advances in NAND flash memory, we have seen the footprint of all storage devices shrink considerably, and if they haven’t, their capacity has increased significantly. Take a look at Samsung’s latest 960 Pro M.2 2TB SSD we recently reviewed for example. This little baby can store 34,000 hrs of …
Read More »Lexar 128GB Professional 1066x CompactFlash Card Review
Perhaps the single thing that really disturbs me is the fact that cameras have not kept up with the advances of storage performance. Where capabilities exist to very easily incorporate hardware into a DSLR that enables the movement of data at speed of over 500MB/s, we are still left with data transfer rates that hamper continuous shooting scenarios significantly. Ok …
Read More »Samsung 2TB 960 Pro NVMe SSD at 3.5GB/s & 950 EVO SSD Announced – Samsung SSD Global Summit 2016 Update
This morning in Seoul, South Korea, Samsung upped the bar once again in the storage world with the announcement of their latest 960 Pro and EVO SSD releases, both NVMe SSDs that have groundbreaking performance, capacities and value. King of the road will be the Samsung 960 Pro PCIe Gen 3×4 NVMe M.2 SSD which will be the first consumer …
Read More »New Korean StartUp Fadu Displays ‘Worlds Fastest SSD’ – Flash Memory Summit 2016 Update
From a personal perspective, one of the most amusing things about this years Flash Memory Summit is the fact that any number of vendors are purporting to have the world’s fastest SSD in their clutch. This is no different with Fadu, a small South Korean startup who had their own SSD, the EC800F on display and functioning. As much as …
Read More »Seagate Displays Worlds Largest 60TB SAS SSD & Demo’s XP7200 AIC at 10GB/s – Flash Memory Summit 2016 Update
For those wondering what has been up with Seagate in the last few months, FMS 2016 was a real eye opener as one of the largest companies seemed to come out of Stealth mode. Our visit to the booth was met with some very impressive hardware, the first of which is this 60TB SAS SSD which just happens to be …
Read More »Samsung Announces 4th Gen V-NAND, 32TB SSD & 1TB Single BGA SSD – Flash Memory Summit 2016 Update
Today at FMS 2016 in Santa Clara, California, Samsung led a Keynote that was sure to leave competitors wondering what the heck. In fact, the most memorable quote we had heard in years at this event just has to be “When you come to see our 3D wafer, you don’t need 3D glasses”, taking a friendly swipe at the Micron …
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