One of the biggest advances at the forefront of digital technology in the past few years has to do with data storage and the introduction of CFExpress cards. As an avid photographer and digital enthusiast, myself… I wonder what took so long and… in fact, I wonder why the digital industry has lagged so far behind when we consider the …
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Acer CFE100 512GB CFExpress Type B Memory Card Review
To say that CFExpress Type B cards haven’t redefined digital media in the past two years would be an understatement. Many enjoy their advantages in moving large photo and video files from the card to PC for work in a fraction of the time that it used to take, but more importantly, its what CFExpress B cards do inside the …
Read More »Sabrent Rocket CFX CFExpress Type B Memory Card and Reader Review (512GB/1TB)
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 …
Read More »WD_Black SN770 Gen 4 SSD Review – Don’t Let Its Good Looks Fool You.
There is a long standing belief that buying a DRAM-less SSD is just wrong. As much as this might hold water prior to and for those users not using Windows 10, it doesn’t for those looking for value and performance in storage today. Without getting too complicated, NVMe and Windows 10 allow the SSD to create a Host Memory Buffer …
Read More »TeamGroup T-Force Cardea A440 Pro Gen4 SSD Review – Top Speeds Great Value
Gen 4 SSDs have become common place as of late and manufacturers have elected to rely on the Phison E18 PCIe 4.0 NVMe controller, and for good reason. It is a top tier controller with performance that provides 7GB/s throughput and over 1 million IOPS and, most recently, we even identified an SSD with this controller as being a ‘game …
Read More »XPG Atom 50 Gen 4 NVMe SSD Review – A DRAM-less SSD Competes with the Best
An unexpected surprise arrived at our offices this Christmas break in the guise of a PCIe 4.0 DRAM-less SSD. It was only a matter of time but there has been some clever thought put into this drive. It is the ADATA XPG Atom 50 Gen 4 SSD and two things that stand out are that it is a single-sided SSD, …
Read More »Kingston KC3000 PCIe 4.0 NVME SSD Review – Did Kingston Just Release a ‘Game’ Changer?
One of the oldest names in SSDs is Kingston. One might not expect such as Kingston, by all sense of the term, is a third party manufacturer…or distributor. Unlike Samsung, WD/SanDisk, Intel, Kioxia, Micron, SKHynix and a few others, they do not actually own a fab that ‘grows’ the silicon ingots to manufacture NAND wafers. Unbelievably, the original Kingston SSDNow …
Read More »WD Blue SN570 Gen3 NVMe SSD Review – Performance and Value in a DRAM-less SSD
Only once before had we ever reviewed an SSD that only contained a single controller and a single NAND chip; this was the Samsung 980 DRAM-less SSD. Much like the 980, our SSD today is a 1TB SSD that is DRAM-less and hits over 3GB/s read and write with a price point of just over a hundred bucks. Direct competition…oh …
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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