Great relationships can lead to great things. In the past few months, there have been a few companies who have stated their intention to market the holy grail of portable storage; a 1TB microSDXC card. So far though… nada. Well…at least until earlier today when a totally unexpected package arrived via courier. It was a small package…very small in fact. …
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PNY 1TB Pro Elite and Elite X USB 3.0/1 Flash Drive Review – High Capacity and Speed in a Very Small Footprint
So we have been used to seeing 1TB and larger external drives for some time now, and typically they will be somewhat compact in size and have a cable which plugs into the storage device and PC. It is not common to see flash drives reaching that 1TB capacity and, in fact, I think we have only ever tackled one …
Read More »PNY Pro Elite 512GB MicroSD Card Review – Bigger and Faster
A few weeks back we reported on one of our first high capacity MicroSD cards, the PNY Elite 512GB MicroSD. We couldn’t say enough about the fact that we are now seeing high capacity storage in smaller devices such as smartphones, surveillance cameras, drones, along with so many other compact devices enjoying the opportunity to enjoy longer operating scenarios before …
Read More »OWC Drive Dock USB-C Review
OWC has been in the storage game for some time and our first review of their first SSD goes back some 9 years now. Throughout the years, they have primarily gained success with Mac add-ons or replacement items, such as SSDs, but we have always been the first to say that OWC is just as valuable as a PC resource. …
Read More »Plugable Type-C NVMe SSD Enclosure Review – The Worlds 1st Tool-less NVMe SSD External Enclosure
Ease of use is massive to me, and I am sure that’s the same with most. M.2 SSDs, as sweet as they are for capacity, size and speeds, are at the best of times difficult to install simply because of the size of the #$%&^% retainer screw. Can this be concerning? Well, I can remember some time ago when that …
Read More »MyDigitalSSD M2X Type-C External M.2 SSD Enclosure Review
Not to often that we have to eat crow (figuratively speaking) but our review today is just that. A few months ago, we reviewed the JMicron Type-C NVMe M.2 SSD to USB 3.1 Gen 2 adapter and quoted it as being ‘not quite ready for prime time.’ Simply, I was wrong. As a reviewer, we sometimes get caught up in …
Read More »PNY Elite 512GB microSDXC Flash Card Review – High Capacity in a Small Package
I remember a time when people were amazed of the high capacity that a CF card could have. It was all the rage for the media world. Years past and we saw the popularity of SD cards, and eventually the need for microSD cards grew exponentially. Yes… I realize I am dating myself here….just about as far back as the …
Read More »JMicron Type-C NVMe SSD to USB 3.1 Gen 2 Adapter – Not Quite Ready for Prime Time
We have had this sitting on out Test Bench for some time and I thought I might do a little playing with it and throw a few tests out there. It is a JMicron USB 3.1 Gen 2 to PCIe/NVMe adapter and it uses a Type-C connector. This adapter accepts a M.2 SSD up to a 2280 form factor and …
Read More »Samsung X5 Thunderbolt 3 Portable SSD Review (1TB)
So we have been on a bit of a kick lately, testing as much TB3 external storage as we could find. And things have come along. Where we were once restricted to external storage of 500MB/s, today’s portable storage is capable of almost 6 times that with Thunderbolt 3. Don’t jump so fast though as TB3 is still rather niche …
Read More »G-Technology G DRIVE mobile PRO SSD (1TB) Review
We have been reviewing TB3 external devices for some time now and it is great to be so far away from those 500MB/s and lower portable storage device speeds. TB3 has been a gift to media professionals, to say the least. Up until today, however, there has only been a single device that we have reviewed that has the portability …
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