Hardware

A funny thing happened on the way to work today…  No really…  We have a pile of high end and super fast portable SSDs waiting to be reviewed and we were not happy learning that motherboards with USB 4 typically do not provide full USB4/Thunderbolt 4 data transfer rates.  Yes, we can surpass that of the Thunderbolt 3 speeds of …

External storage is still neglected by far too many.  Considering it is the key ingredient of data loss at all levels, it’s cost sits comfortably in the billions.  Millions of people lose personal and business data daily and perhaps one of the key reasons is the belief that this is typically a business or enterprise problem.  At the human level, …

Up rather early to check out and post some of the best of the best Black Friday Deals at Amazon.  Be lucky you don’t live where I live as the great white North got dumped on last night with one of the the heaviest snowfalls ever and it hasn’t stopped, so for me, a quick post here and then out …

Let’s start this article off by clearing a few things up.  This is not a sponsored article and I have had no contact with the companies of which will be included.  Next up… this is without a doubt the first time in a long time I have been inspired to write an article just because.  If I can save you …

Kinda speechless.  We first started The SSD Review some 15 years ago and swore I would never use another hard drive for storage.  I’d betcha there are petabytes of flash storage lying around this office to include enterprise drives, client as well as consumer SSDs, many products that never even made it to mainstream sales and some that have never …

Portable storage is something so many overlook, at least until it is too late.  It’s importance cannot be overstated as so many have learned valuable lessons much too late.  Myself…my laptop dropped out of my hand on a Military base far too many years ago resulting in the loss of close to a year in weapons establishments surveys, along with …

On our Test Bench this morning is the Samsung Portable SSD (PSSD) T5 EVO and it is a rather unique device.  There is no doubt whatsoever that, at only 3 3/4″ x 1 1/2″ x 5/8″ and weighing 3.5oz, this is the most compact 8TB on the market, but also, this PSSD attains speeds of 460MB/s read and write which …

Over the years, we have compiled several SSD reviews that might not be the norm to most; secure SSDs.  We aren’t speaking of software contained portable SSDs that enable one to activate that devices hardware encryption, but rather, those that don’t rely on software, those that cannot be broken into and even if someone could, those that are filled solid …

Samsung has been around for some time now.   In fact they were one the first to spread their wings in the consumer flash industry.  Just like any other manufacturer, there have been a few speed bumps along the way but Samsung has established themselves as a quality storage company for more years than one might consider.  Their external storage collection …

PCIe 5.0 has made its stand in the PC world and is well on its way to making everything we do faster and more efficient.  Considering data storage, SSD data transfer speeds now stretch above 10GB/s, but other Z790 great features include parallel ThunderBolt 4 and USB 3.2 2×2, as well as CPU speeds well above 5GHz. TBolt 3/4 brings …