Hardware

Hot on the heals of one of the best examples of pure storage gear that we have ever had in our hands (SanDisk Professional PRO-BLADE), Western Digital sends us along their newest SanDisk Professional PRO-G40 Portable SSD for a quick look.  Let’s start this report off by saying that SanDisk Professional gear is not for the faint of heart.  It …

Happens to even the best of us.  Last week, I had an SSD crash of my main PC and shortly after learned that my back-up wasn’t going to work and my secondary back-up set me back 2-years.  Considering my love of photography and all things digital, that was a MASSIVE loss.  Sitting right beside my PC was SanDisk’s newest SanDisk …

Sabrent recently sent us two of their newest card readers to have a look at and we were no less than impressed.  They are the Sabrent ThunderBolt 3 CFExpress Type B Card Reader along with the Sabrent UHS-II SDXC/microSD Card Readers.  Both of these readers connect by way of a Type-C cable,  the SD/microSD reader having a 6″ fixed cable …

Without a doubt, the most costly criminal loss to society today is through data loss.  Billions doesn’t accurately reflect the total loss worldwide and, as a matter of fact, we are certain that there would be a single instance where more than a billion dollars of return has moved through a single criminals crypto account.  And nobody is immune.  From …

The Samsung Portable T7 Shield is a USB 3.2 Gen 2 SSD that will transfer data at up to 1GB/s with capacities up to 2TB, a decent price point and 3-year warranty.

If you are a gamer or media manipulator, data transfer speeds are key.  There are two options that speak to data transfer speed in external storage, these being Thunderbolt 3/4 or the newest USB 3.2.  We see fairly few Thunderbolt devices these days as they are the more expensive of the two when considering external SSDs.  They are faster, however. …

One of the constants that has come to mind as a photographer over the years is finding perfect storage for my media.  Admittedly, I still do something I don’t really approve of which is storing media on my system drive and this is only thanks to Sabrent and their choice to market 4/8TB drives for this purpose.  I have also …

A few months back we posted what would be one of the first reports on SD Express 7.o (SDx) and its potential in the media storage industry.  This report brought to us transfer speeds of just under 900MB/s in a fully backward compatible SD Express card, the shape of which was identical to that of any typical SD card.  It …

It wasn’t so long ago that nobody really gave much thought to their needs in memory cards.  8K wasn’t much of a reality outside of media industry professionals and it was pretty easy to choose what one needed on the consumer side. Pretty much anything of a reputable name would do. Speed classes graduated from two to ten and UHS …

The popularity of CFExpress Type B cards has been overwhelming over the past year and we are certain that it will continue to grow as newer digital equipment is released with this type of storage in mind.  It moves us from under 100MB/s data transfer speed for most up to over 5x that with CFExpress highs of 1700MB/s.  Don’t get …