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 …
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It had to happen sooner or later. I think we are the first to post such. A DRAMless Gen5 SSD that reaches 14GB/s, over 2 million IOPS and stands right beside Gen5 DRAM based SSDs. This is possible thorough BIWIN and the newest release of the Maxiotek MAP1806a 8-channel DRAMless NVMe SSD controller which you will probably be hearing much …
Read More » Sure signs of a storage geek… I haven’t been on the ground no more than 36 hours after returning on a 15hr hr flight from Computex Taipei and I am testing storage. Worse yet… my initial testing for today’s report was only completed at 4:30am this morning… Yup extreme jet lag… But look at this. These two SSDs in this …
Read More » A short time ago, we reviewed an SSD from a mostly unheard of company named Yottamaster. They are a China-based SSD manufacturer and they sent us the ‘Amazon available’ Yottamaster Y7000 Gen4 QLC which we reviewed here. This SSD contained a Maxio MAP1602a ‘Falcon Lite’ 4-channel NVMe SSD controller based on TSMC’s 12nm process which was paired with YMTC 232-layer …
Read More » We’de like to say it’s been a long week evaluating and reporting on ProGrade Digitals newest 4.0 gear but, truth be told, it is just nice to have this entire package in-hand to present it as it should be. Our first report spoke to the PG 20 Pro Thunderbolt 4 Hub where we also looked at both accompanying CFExpress A …
Read More » If I could ask a company to put the complete package of storage products together, it would be exactly what ProGrade Digital has done. It starts with a ProHub by which an assortment of different readers could connect by USB-C for high speed. ProGrade Digital did just that with their PG20 Pro Hub and infused this with the latest in …
Read More » ProGrade Digital has upped the ante when it comes to CFExpress Cards and their latest offerings reach an incredible data transfer speed of over 3500MB/s with 1500MB/s sustained write speeds. This all relies on the newest USB 4.0 standard and they have put together a complete package to include PG20 Pro Hub and CFExpress A/B card Readers which we reviewed …
Read More » So… We seem to have a bunch of new high-end gear in hand and that is thanks to ProGrade Digital who sent over just a bit more than we expected. If you are a camera or video professional, or enthusiast as I happen to be, finding this on the doorstep is simply Christmas. Everything is Thunderbolt 4/USB 4 in some …
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. …
Read More » As a wildlife photographer, I can tell you that the most frustrating thing has always been how camera companies lag behind. It has to with media transfer and manipulation. Storage… and more specifically… flash storage has moved forward rapidly but camera companies haven’t kept up. I just can’t bear it and neither can Grey Eyes here. The storage speed of …
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