I absolutely love world firsts. Even more than that, I love seeing genuine technological innovation. Not long ago, we introduced the Longsys Gen4 mSSD, and we were fortunate enough to receive the drive directly from Longsys Chairman Huabo Cai, giving us the opportunity to publish what turned out to be an unexpected world exclusive. That 1TB SSD, no larger than …
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When it comes to SSDs, I can’t help but wonder whether the latest price spike is simply a temporary shock driven by AI demand, or whether it was inevitable all along. For a while, we had it incredibly good. High-performance, DRAM-equipped SSDs with generous capacities and five-year warranties were selling at prices that would seem unbelievable today. Those days are …
Read More » I’d like to say change is coming to the SSD market, but the reality is that it’s already here. Looking back, it’s a bit amusing because long before the current NAND and DRAM shortages, I wondered whether SSD performance would eventually plateau with PCIe Gen4. What I didn’t anticipate, and neither did anyone else, was the memory shortage that would …
Read More » This report is rather special. Just under ten years ago, we did a report on an Apricorn Aegis Secure Key 3.0 (ASK3) external SSD which is my longest standing product still in use today. Ten years. Most recently, Apricorn reached out asking if I might like to report on their newer updated version of the ASK3 and I couldn’t resist. …
Read More » What better way to start CES this year than to spend time with Lexar, members of the Argentina Football Team and to actually get a hands on with the World Cup! Lexar announced their global partnership with AFA at an amazing release event in Las Vegas’ Museum of Illusions, tying this into some amazing ground breaking storage product releases. We …
Read More » Lexar has done it again… and this time, Sony Alpha and FX series owners finally have reason to celebrate. For years, they’ve been like kids watching from the sidelines while Canon EOS R5 users like myself enjoyed the benefits of faster CFExpress Type-B storage. But that all changes now. Thanks to Lexar, Type-A users are catching up in a big …
Read More » We have in our hot little hands the latest and greatest LaCie Rugged SSD4 and I am personally thinking this SSD may have been made just for me. My true love in life is wildlife photography and I have found myself in just about every weather condition and situations many would never. And yes I have been up a tree …
Read More » Sitting here doing some testing and this years highest pile of SSDs seem to belong to SMI, all containing the SMI SM2508 Gen5 8-channel SSD controller that has taken the industry by storm. The newest sample is rather interesting and there aren’t any reviews for it just yet. It is the Transcend MTE260S Gen5 2TB SSD and don’t ask what …
Read More » Hot off its test run this morning and in our hot little hands (well not really) is the latest Crucial consumer offering, the Crucial T710 Gen5 2TB SSD. This SSD is Crucial/Micron’s first ‘consumer’ release with their latest 276-layer G9 3D TLC NAND flash memory. This move improves upon the previous G8 232-layer 3D TLC NAND flash memory and, well, …
Read More » 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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