Tag Archives: USB 3.0

Making our rounds at CES, we made a stop by Kingston to check out what they had going on. It turns out, they have something pretty impressive. They are releasing a brand new PCIe 2.0 x4 M.2 SSD capable of 1.4GB/s reads and 1GB/s write, the HyperX Predator! UPDATE: Exclusive Full Review Here. Featuring a Marvell 88SS9293 controller, the drive …

While about the exhibit floor here at Storage Visions 2015, we couldn’t help but notice a small gathering around Chris Geiser, senior memory and storage product manager at Samsung. It turns out that all the commotion was for a sneak peak at a new 3D V-NAND powered external SSD, the Samsung Portable SSD T1! Samsung’s Portable SSD T1 is a …

Rarely does one find them self searching through shelves at a store trying to find the best USB flash drive. You have one goal and your focused on that: capacity. Things like looks and speed are sure to follow. What would you say if we told you that you could have all of that and more? How about a USB …

Transcend Information, Inc., a leading producer of multimedia and storage devices, is announcing the launch of the StoreJet for Mac SJM500 portable SSD that features both a Thunderbolt connection and a USB 3.0 connection. The SJM500 is natively formatted in HFS+ and provides full support for Apple’s Time Machine backup software, giving users “plug and play” backup capabilities. Advanced Thunderbolt …

VisionTek Products LLC, a leading producer of high-performance upgrades for PCs and Macs, is announcing its new VisionTek USB Pocket SSD series of thumb-drive sized solid state drives (SSDs). Featuring the speed, enhanced reliability and storage capacity rivaling factory-installed and aftermarket internal SSDs, VisionTek’s USB pocket SSD can be used with almost any Windows, MAC OS-X or Linux based operating …

We are always on the go and the safe transport of our data is of high importance, especially for media professionals such as myself. Whether it is travel from home to office or offsite to remote regions for a new project, I need to make sure my data is safe and backed up as it is created. Typically after a …

Summer has come and gone, and over the past few months, there have been quite a few SSDs released into the market, and the question of, “Which SSD should I buy?” seems to still come up a lot around forums. Usually, there are some predetermined recommended favorite in each. Today we feel we should provide our own answer to the …

Mach Xtreme Technology, a global producer of high-performance, high-reliability and user-friendly PC components, is announcing their MX-ES Ultra series of USB 3.0 flash drives.  The MX-ES Ultra USB 3.0 flash drives will feature the superior speed and reliability of SLC NAND, rather than the MLC NAND that is typically found in other USB 3.0 flash drives.  Utilizing SLC NAND makes …

While HDDs are great for storing personal documents and offer us high capacity at a decent price, they do have their cons. When constantly on the run, consumers want fast and reliable external storage in a very portable form factor. Portable external HDDs are usually able to meet those needs, but not always. HDDs have two issues when used as …

The world of flash drives continues to change and, for the most part, many features we might like to see still aren’t present in today’s solutions.  Simple software security that allows a secure folder to store sensitive data, apart from the normal storage area where we can throw daily data,  comes to mind right away. And what about lifespan?  Even …