Happens to even the best of us. Last week, I had an SSD crash of my main PC and shortly after learned that my back-up wasn’t going to work and my secondary back-up set me back 2-years. Considering my love of photography and all things digital, that was a MASSIVE loss. Sitting right beside my PC was SanDisk’s newest SanDisk …
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Sabrent Releases ThunderBolt 3 CFExpress Type B and SDXC UHS II Card Readers
Sabrent recently sent us two of their newest card readers to have a look at and we were no less than impressed. They are the Sabrent ThunderBolt 3 CFExpress Type B Card Reader along with the Sabrent UHS-II SDXC/microSD Card Readers. Both of these readers connect by way of a Type-C cable, the SD/microSD reader having a 6″ fixed cable …
Read More »Ironkey Vault Privacy 80ES Hardware-Encrypted External SSD Review
Without a doubt, the most costly criminal loss to society today is through data loss. Billions doesn’t accurately reflect the total loss worldwide and, as a matter of fact, we are certain that there would be a single instance where more than a billion dollars of return has moved through a single criminals crypto account. And nobody is immune. From …
Read More »Samsung Portable SSD T7 Shield Review
The Samsung Portable T7 Shield is a USB 3.2 Gen 2 SSD that will transfer data at up to 1GB/s with capacities up to 2TB, a decent price point and 3-year warranty.
Read More »Lexar SL660 Blaze Gaming Portable SSD Review (1TB)
If you are a gamer or media manipulator, data transfer speeds are key. There are two options that speak to data transfer speed in external storage, these being Thunderbolt 3/4 or the newest USB 3.2. We see fairly few Thunderbolt devices these days as they are the more expensive of the two when considering external SSDs. They are faster, however. …
Read More »Sabrent Thunderbolt 3 Dual NVMe 8TB SSD Docking Station Review
One of the constants that has come to mind as a photographer over the years is finding perfect storage for my media. Admittedly, I still do something I don’t really approve of which is storing media on my system drive and this is only thanks to Sabrent and their choice to market 4/8TB drives for this purpose. I have also …
Read More »Ritz Gear Golden Eagle 256GB SDXC Express Card & Reader Review – Not for the Faint of Heart
A few months back we posted what would be one of the first reports on SD Express 7.o (SDx) and its potential in the media storage industry. This report brought to us transfer speeds of just under 900MB/s in a fully backward compatible SD Express card, the shape of which was identical to that of any typical SD card. It …
Read More »Sabrent Rocket SDXC V90 Memory Cards Reviewed – 512GB V90 is an Enthusiast Dream
It wasn’t so long ago that nobody really gave much thought to their needs in memory cards. 8K wasn’t much of a reality outside of media industry professionals and it was pretty easy to choose what one needed on the consumer side. Pretty much anything of a reputable name would do. Speed classes graduated from two to ten and UHS …
Read More »Wise Type B 2TB & PRO 160/640GB CFExpress Memory Card Review – Understanding the Capacity/Sustained Write Trade Off
The popularity of CFExpress Type B cards has been overwhelming over the past year and we are certain that it will continue to grow as newer digital equipment is released with this type of storage in mind. It moves us from under 100MB/s data transfer speed for most up to over 5x that with CFExpress highs of 1700MB/s. Don’t get …
Read More »Secure Data SecureDrive KP 1TB Encrypted Portable SSD Review – FIPS 140-2 Level 3 Certified
We have reviewed several security-positioned portable SSDs over the years and one of the most common things we get is that companies are awaiting their FIPS certification. This doesn’t speak negative to the product being reviewed whatsoever but, when we get a truly certified product in hand, it is nice. Today, we are looking at the Secure Data SecureDrive KP …
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