Storage

Between TSSDR and Tech X in the last while, we have been fortunate to publish reports on some great Toshiba SSD releases to include their newest Q Pro Retail SSD, an exclusive report on their brand new client HG5d M.2 SSD, along with another on their client mSATA SSD.  Today’s report is going to show a bit of our last Toshiba …

Check Out The HighPoint Rocketstor 5212 at Amazon! The Thunderbolt interface has been out for some time now and doesn’t seem to have caught on as many might have hoped.  Considering that it provides a significant performance boost (10Gb/s vice 5Gb/s) when compared to USB 3.0, performance over price was the hurdle that many believed could be overcome.  Marketability and …

It is no secret that the popularity of mSATA SSDs is being pushed around just a bit by M.2 PCIe design.  M.2 SSDs may even tempt us with a great deal more power for the punch and capacity down the road.  What M.2 doesn’t have, as of yet, is just about every popular ultra book in the world in their …

With the rapid progress of technology from one day to the next, concepts, ideas, inventions, and reinventions suddenly turn from wishful thinking into reality. In the case of solid-state drives the burning question was whether we would see a viable external solution. Conventional hard-drives already go their external variant primarily thanks to USB 2.0; with the raw speed and performance …

It seems as if the newest trend coming out from peripheral-based companies are a plethora of mobile companions. Starting off as battery-backup units, these devices have evolved further into capable media streamers, card readers, cloud storage clients, and wireless extenders/routers while still retaining their original purpose as a powerbank. We can effectively call them ‘mini-NAS’ units at this point. Now …

When SSDs first started to appear back in 2007, their top capacity was 32GB and pricing soared to well over $3000; such is the price of new technology.  Even today, it seems incredible that we could fit 128GB of memory into a secure digital memory card.   Capacity in a SD card is nothing without performance and today’s media enthusiasts are …

If you are a novice regarding SSDs and SSD technology, the names ‘Runcore’ and ‘KingFast’ should at least strike a chord. The two companies recently merged, with KingFast becoming the sub-brand of RunCore; neither have shown signs of slowing down. Being two of the top SSD manufacturers, we will be looking at their newest SLC creation. Between the three NAND …

Yesterday’s advanced camera and video realm has become the norm of today and with that, the consumer needs to carry a bit more knowledge on their shoulders.  Where any SD card might suffice for newer consumer media recorders of just a short time ago, today’s equipment shoots in 1080P video, over 40 megapixels and has brought such advanced features as …

One of the key components of a media professionals toolkit has to be the SD card and, with that, comes the need for performance and desire for capacity.  This need isn’t solely that of the media pro’s, however, as newer camera systems are including the ability to take pictures above 40 megapixels in size, as well as HD video unrivaled …

With the gaining popularity of SSDs, it was only a matter of time until we started seeing large capacity external SSDs hit the street and the time has come.  Whereas less than seven days ago we had never had an external SSD of 512GB capacity, today I have three 512GB and a 1TB external SSDs sitting in front of me …