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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It is no secret that one of Sabrent’s top weapons in the storage world is the Rocket 4 Plus which has been around for some time now. First introduced in 2020, the Rocket 4 Plus has been fine tuned to add a 4TB in addition to the original 1/2TB releases and then Sabrent even added a custom heatsink for PS5 …
Read More » Most SSD manufacturers have been around four to six times longer than Sabrent, but few can stand beside the company. Alongside Phison, they have literally pushed the SSD industry forward at a pace that pretty much labels them pioneers and they have only been in this space a few years. Any reviewer can display a pile of 4/8TB TLC/QLC SSDs, …
Read More » 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 » One of the oldest players in the SSD world is Samsung. They have been around since the beginning and were the first to release SSDs on the retail side way back in April of 2008, right there beside SanDisk. Back then, we had the Samsung 64GB SLC SATA II SSD priced at a high of $1130… for 64GB! Flash memory …
Read More » 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 » 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 » Manfrotto has been a steady name in photography since Lino Manfrotto was a photo reporter in the early ’60s in Italy. His original passion has developed into a a long standing and successful business in the camera industry. Primarily known for their stands, camera bags and studio lighting and accessories, it was only a matter of time until Manfrotto jumped …
Read More » Up on the Test Bench today we have the latest and greatest from Lexar, the Lexar Professional NM800 Pro NVMe SSD. This SSD has a very compact heatsink which makes it the perfect addition to a Sony Playstation 5 gaming system. Let’s add to that the fact that the makeup of this SSD isn’t your run of the mill copycat …
Read More » A rather unfortunate and all too common thing we have seen throughout the years is substandard third party components within electronic equipment. A perfect example might be a storage device in a laptop where, most often, the SSD choice has been poorly thought out by the company. We have posted a lot of notebook and Ultrabook reviews throughout the years …
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