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Every now and then a product comes across our desk that we just know is going to be special…maybe even a game changer.  Such is the case with the newest Micron 2550 DRAMless PCIe 4.0 Client M.2 SSD that we are testing today and, quite frankly, it is hard to believe there is really so much in such a small …

DRAMless SSDs are somewhat of an odd duck in the SSD world, yet they consistently reappear.   Ask anyone on any forum if DRAMless SSDs are a viable option for a main storage medium could be considered picking a fight.  There are hard pressed views and, as a rather long-standing solid state drive reviewer, my views haven’t always gone with the …

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 …

I remember a few years back when I got my hands on the first SATA SSD and first experienced the difference between a hard drive and SSD.  Back then, part of my job was creating legal disclosures and completing a vetted and optimized 300 page report in Acrobat might take 30 to 45 minutes.  With an SSD it took 30 …

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 …

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 …

SK hynix is a South Korean company that was founded way back in 1949 as Gukdo Construction and renamed to Hyundai Electronics Industries in 1983 before acquiring LG Semiconductor in 1999.  It changed its name to Hynix Semiconductor in 2001. Most haven’t a clue who they are or what they do.  They are one of few true memory manufacturers in the …

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 …

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.

Without a doubt, the toughest lesson learned on release of the Canon EOS R5 Mirrorless camera was that of storage and this relatively new thing called sustained write performance.  Countless people purchased these cameras, along with first generation CFExpress Type B cards that had not been approved by Canon.  They quickly learned that features that should be available within their …