If you check out our site regularly, you might notice that we are starting somewhat of a ProGrade review kick in the week before Computex 2025. It’s no coincidence as one day we awoke to find the below stack of goods on our doorstep… all Thunderbolt 4 or USB 4.0 related and all from ProGrade Digital. All fast storage stuff. …
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Yottamaster Swift Wind USB4 M.2 SSD Enclosure Review – Words Like Invaluable & Irreplaceable Don’t Even Come Close!
Anyone who follows TSSDR knows that we rarely spend time on a review of something so common as a M.2 external enclosure. Have I ever done one? I have been trying to find just right rights words for my discovery. Indispensable. Crucial. (No…the adjective not the company) Critical. Key. Vital. I am sure you get where I am going. I …
Read More »Corsair TBT200 ThunderBolt 4 Dock Review – Up to 96W Power Delivery and all the Tb4 Ports One Could Need
A portable dock for a laptop can be a sweet thing when the laptop charges from the dock. Historically though, there have been growing pains in creating the perfect dock. I am on my fourth Lenovo dock at work and I still want to toss it across the room at times when a monitor pops out for no apparent reason. …
Read More »Sabrent Releases ThunderBolt 3 CFExpress Type B and SDXC UHS II Card Readers
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 …
Read More »Sabrent Thunderbolt 3 Dual NVMe 8TB SSD Docking Station Review
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 …
Read More »WD_Black D50 1TB NVMe SSD Gaming Dock Review – Unheard of ThunderBolt 3 Performance
It is a bit amusing how we might be speaking of the merits and oversights of a new product in the tech industry, and only a few days later something very similar turns up. In this case it has to do exactly with this latest product to hit our Test Bench, the WD_Black D50 1TB SSD Gaming Dock where, a …
Read More »HYPER Hyperdrive Gen2 16 Port Thunderbolt 3 Dock Review
Thunderbolt 3 has been around for some time now and is the preferred choice by so many media professionals. Its data transfer speeds might reach 2.8GB/s but, more importantly, Thunderbolt 3 can be daisy chained and its 40Gbps speeds allow countless different methods of port transfer simultaneously. Because of this, the concept of external docks allows much more in a …
Read More »Sonnet SF3 CFexpressB/XQD Pro Thunderbolt 3 Card Reader – All that Speed!
Things have been a bit disappointing as of late. The fastest external data transfer rate for media is Thunderbolt 3 and, well, the industry just doesn’t want to keep up so it seems. Thunderbolt 3 has been around for some time, but good luck finding it integrated directly into motherboards but for that of ASRock, unless of course you want …
Read More »Accell Driver-Less USB-C 4K Docking Station Quick Look – Simple Driver-Less Display and Peripheral Connection
It is always great to bring something to the forefront that is just a bit different. Today, we are taking a quick look at a product that very well may be a technology break through…that has been made possible by SMI. The product is the newest Accell Driver-Less USB-C 4K Docking Station and its existence has been made possible by …
Read More »Orico Thunderbolt 3 TB3-S1 Docking Station Review
I am always looking for a decent docking station. As much as it is very convenient when travelling to tech events, more so, I am always looking for the perfect answer to office convenience. Reaching behind the PC to find just the right port, or even plugging a device in the PC front when its cabling just isn’t long enough …
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