The ability to upgrade storage in today’s smartphones seems to have become key once again. It is the dividing point between Samsung and Apple. A Samsung S7 smart phone allows the user to add up to 200GB of storage space whereas the Apple iPhone 6S tops out at 128GB, that storage increasing the iPhone price by several hundred dollars. This …
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Lexar Demonstrates New MicroSD & External SSD – CES 2016 Update
Today we met with Micron/Lexar/Crucial, to specifically discuss Lexar and their new products being released at CES 2016. Being released are new microSD cards as well as a portable SSD. First up is the Lexar Professional 1800x microSDHC/microSDXC UHS-II cards. They are class 10 U3 microSD cards capable of read speeds of up to 270 MB/s and writes up to …
Read More »Lexar Professional 2000x SDXC UHS-II Card Review (64GB)
A little over a year ago we were able to take a close look at a new breed of SD cards thanks to SanDisk releasing the world’s first UHS-II SD card, the SanDisk Extreme Pro. The standard was so new, besides the Fujifilm XT-1, no other camera even supported the form factor at the time. In September Lexar finally released …
Read More »Lexar JumpDrive P10 (32 GB) Review – A Luxury Flash Drive!
Flashdrives have come a long way in the tech industry, many today having great capacity coupled with low prices. Recently we looked at Silicon Power’s Marvel M70 USB 3.0 Flash Drive, which had incredible capacity at an amazing low price. Today, we make the switch to speed and are looking no further than the Lexar JumpDrive P10. To start, the …
Read More »SSD Prices Continue To Drop Making This Storage Solution Inevitable
The Crucial M4 has recently been the poster child for high performance at low prices. We’ve been following the M4’s pricing for a while now, and recent sales have been dropping the Crucial well below the 1GB/$ range. Yesterday, the 128GB variant was selling for a mere $99, which works out to around $0.83 cents per usable GB. The 256GB …
Read More »Micron Buys U.K. Based Virtensys Ltd. For PCIe SSD Solutions
The PCIe SSD based storage market is getting quite popular these days. Micron already has a PCIe SSD on the market, but their acquisition of U.K. company Virtensys on Friday should help them keep up with other PCIe SSD rivals like Fusion-io and OCZ. Virtensys Ltd. specializes in PCIe I/O sharing appliances for large server and owns intellectual property to help share …
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