Given respect to portable storage, Sabrent is without a doubt the team to beat. They hold no reservations when it comes to speed or capacity in a portable SSD. Not only have we seen this with their speedy 10Gbps, 20Gbps and Thunderbolt 3 drives performing up to 3GB/s but also, they are the only that would dare market a 16TB …
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WD_Black P40 Game Drive Portable SSD Review
The WD_Black gaming line has been around for some time now and we have been fortunate to report on several items in the past few years. Admittedly, my personal favorite was one of the first, the WD_Black AN1500 which was well before its time as an add-in card that could hit speeds of 6GB/s and was bootable…to boot. The one …
Read More »SanDisk Professional PRO-G40 ThunderBolt 3 Dual Mode Portable SSD Review – Unbelievable 3.1GB/s Data Transfer Speeds
Hot on the heals of one of the best examples of pure storage gear that we have ever had in our hands (SanDisk Professional PRO-BLADE), Western Digital sends us along their newest SanDisk Professional PRO-G40 Portable SSD for a quick look. Let’s start this report off by saying that SanDisk Professional gear is not for the faint of heart. It …
Read More »SanDisk Professional PRO-BLADE Transport and 2/4GB PRO-BLADE SSD Mag Review – Perfection Realized
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 …
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 »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 …
Read More »Kingston XS2000 1TB Portable SSD Review – SMI’s Newest SM2320 USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 Portable SSD Controller Shines
It isn’t often that we receive review samples of the same product from both the chip and product manufacturers within days, but such is the case with this report. In this instance, it is a very good thing as we are reviewing the Kingston XS2000 Portable SSD and this is a permanently enclosed unit, whereas we have also received the …
Read More »Rocket XTRM-Q 16TB External Thunderbolt 3 SSD Review – Can an SSD Ever be Too Big?
Well, Sabrent seems to have pulled off something that we don’t expect to see any other manufacturer do anytime soon. Not Samsung. Not Crucial. Not Intel, Toshiba, Lexar, Team Group, Transcend, Mushkin, XPG, Corsair, WD, Seagate, ADATA, Corsair and not Silicon Power. Sabrent has thrown down the gauntlet and we want all to know that we are willing to accept …
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