Patriot EP Series High Endurance microSD Cards Last week during CES 2021 the team over at Patriot launched their EP series High Endurance microSDHC/XC cards. These new memory cards are designed for video recording devices needing to operate under extreme weather conditions and harsh environments with outstanding reliability and durability. The Patriot High Endurance cards are backed …more

Samsung 870 EVO – The Definitive SSD For Every Need Samsung hasn’t forgotten about all the 2.5-inch SATA SSD users out there and just today introduced the 870 EVO SSD series. Designed with improved performance and reliability, this drive is aimed at all users that are interested in rocking a 2.5-inch form factor drive. The SATA III interface has …more

How to Add USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 To Your Current Desktop PC If you use the USB interface to move around files you’ll be hearing about USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 ports much more here in 2021. That is because Intel has integrated USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 into their upcoming 500 series chipset. This move means …more

Corsair iCUE 5000X RGB Case Review With the success of the 4000 series mid-tower ATX cases, Corsair is introducing the larger 5000 series mid-tower computer cases to their case lineup. Like the 4000 series, the 5000 series come in three variants: 5000D, 5000D Airflow, and iCUE 5000X RGB. The 5000D is the standard option while …more

WD Adds 4TB Option for Portable SSDs Western Digital is always working hard behind the scenes to bring higher capacity drives to market. Before today the largest capacity portable drive from WD was 2TB. That is enough storage space for many, but the demand for 4TB models has been slowly increasing. WD has recognized that …more

Overclocking The Radeon RX 6800 At $579 the AMD Radeon RX 6800 graphics card is the lowest priced Big Navi card on the market today. We’ve had a number of people ask how it overclocks and that is something we didn’t touch on in the launch article. The AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT is priced …more

Looking at a backlit power meter by Suraielec We’ve been using P3 P4400 Kill A Watt electricity usage monitors on Legit Reviews for nearly two decades. The power meters have worked well, but after nearly 20 years is there anything better on the market? We took a look at Amazon and noticed some different brands …more

AMD’s Smart Access Memory Now Works On Intel Twas the night before Christmas, when ASUS quietly released new BIOS versions for Intel’s 400-series chipset motherboards that added Re-Size BAR support! AMD’s Smart Access Memory (SAM) is based on Resizable BAR (Base Address Register) as that is the secret sauce on how they enhance GPU performance. Enabling this …more

ORICO Makes Cassette Tapes Great Again! We cover all sorts of storage products on Legit Reviews, but the ORICO HDD Enclosure 2580U3 is one of the coolest products that we have been sent in a long time. Hard drive enclosures are pretty much a dime a dozen these days, but this one looks like a …more

Corsair HS70 Bluetooth Headset Review The HS70 Bluetooth headset is the first Corsair gaming headset with simultaneous wired 3.5mm or USB connection with wireless Bluetooth. This headset includes several key features from the HS70 Wireless along with some changes to its aesthetics and features. The HS70 Bluetooth still includes a light-weight and durable aluminum frame and …more

ArmorLock – A Serious Encrypted 2TB Portable SSD If you are concerned with the data on your portable SSD getting seen by others an encrypted SSD like the ArmorLock by G-Technology might be of interest. This 2TB external NVMe SSD has high-end speeds of up to 1000 MB/s yet offers 256-bit AES-XTS hardware encryption and NIST …more

Silicon Power US70 – Low Priced Phison E16 Drive Are you looking for a PCIe Gen 4.0 NVMe SSD to upgrade the drive in your PC or for a new system build? You’ve come to the right place as we’ve independently reviewed 30 solid-state drives for the consumer market in just 2020. Our 31st and …more

Patriot Viper VP4100 – Phison E16 with Firmware v13.0 The Patriot Viper VP4100 used the Phison E16 controller and the PCIe Gen 4.0 interface to deliver sequential performance of up to 5,000MB/s Read and 4,400MB/s Write. This is about 10 times faster than SATA SSDs and up to 50 times faster than traditional HDDs. If …more

microSDXC 1TB Cards Get Cheaper Thanks to Silicon Power This month Silicon Power introduced the lowest priced 1TB microSDXC memory card at just $169.99 over at Amazon. The 1TB capacity card is part of its ‘Superior’ family of products and boasts sequential read and write speeds up to 100 MB/s and 80 MB/s, respectively. That …more

Rocket 4 Plus – Best PCIe Gen 4 SSD? Sabrent appears to have done really well in 2020, but they aren’t finished shaking up the SSD market just yet. Sabrent just recently launched the Rocket 4 Plus series and it just happens to be the best performing NVMe SSD that they have ever released. The …more