Up bright and early this morning to put the finishing touches on what has been a whirlwind of SSD reviews over the past few weeks. In less than 48 hours, I’ll be setting the keyboard aside for a month as I embark on a coast-to-coast-to-coast motorcycle journey across North America in under three weeks, Atlantic to Pacific and back again. …
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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 …
Read More » We had a great opportunity to spend some time with Phison this CES, the lions share of that time learning about their aiDAPTIV software which will be the subject of a further report once we can get it all together, as well as trying the software out in person. While at their suite, we did however, catch a live demo …
Read More » These are the lowest 4/8 TB prices we have seen to date, and as such, they deserve a post! Right now at Amazon, the Lexar Play Gen4 SSD capable of speeds up to 7400MB/s read and 6500MB/s write are priced at an all time low $499.99 for the 8TB version and $219.99 for the 4TB version. Believe it or not, …
Read More » Samsung introduced an SSD last week that just happens to be a ‘Samsung first’. It is the Samsung 9100 Pro Gen 5 SSD and we have reviewed this previously in its 4TB capacity. Samsung has a reputation of being one of the best in the industry and we might bet that their sales reflect such by a healthy margin. Deservedly, …
Read More » Up bright and early this morning to find you some Amazon Prime deals and they arte posted early. Let’s get right to it! Simply click on the title of each. WD_Black SN8100 Gen5 2TB – $209.98 (Was $319.99) -34% (Link) This is one of the most powerful SSDs today and we reviewed it here! The 1TB version of this has …
Read More » Last in our latest round of portable SSD reviews is the Crucial X10 8TB 20Gbps Portable SSD, and yes, we have this in our hot little hands. It is actually quite a feat when you consider this SSD is less than half the size of your smartphone, yet can store all the data, video, music or pictures that you might …
Read More » A day or two late but we wanted to complete our testing on the newest Crucial X10 Portable SSD for a more complete picture. Coming in at just 65mm x 50mm x 9.9mm and weighing just 42 Grams, this SSD is the smallest form factor 8TB SSD on the planet right now… and we haven’t got one in hand… well …
Read More » Once upon a time, I sat with a company questioning them as to why they were so hesitant to market a 1TB SSD; they wouldn’t push that 512GB barrier. Their honest and frank response was simply, “Why sell very few of a product that costs more to build when we can sell much more of what is in demand at …
Read More » It is no secret that one of Sabrent’s top weapons in the storage world is the Rocket 4 Plus which has been around for some time now. First introduced in 2020, the Rocket 4 Plus has been fine tuned to add a 4TB in addition to the original 1/2TB releases and then Sabrent even added a custom heatsink for PS5 …
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