Crucial MX300 SSDs Now Available in Five Capacities Three months ago Crucial announced the MX300 750GB ‘Limited Edition’ SSD to celebrate their brand new Micron 3D TLC NAND Flash memory technology. We reviewed the MX300 750GB drive and found that the Micron 3D TLC NAND along with the Marvell 88SS1074 controller and Crucial custom firmware proved to be a winning combination. Crucial …more
Toshiba OCZ VX500 Drives Arrive To Replace The VT180 The Toshiba OCZ VX500 was released this morning and it will be replacing the current OCZ Vector 180 or the VT180 as it is called by Toshiba. The OCZ Vector 180 with the OCZ Barefoot 3 controller debuted back in March 2015 and over the past …more
Transcend JetDrive Go 300 For iOS There are a few long standing complaints about iOS devices and they are somewhat related. First is the high price of flash storage when buying larger capacity models and the second is the lack of expandable storage via secure digital cards or other digital media cards. The Android platform …more
Seagate BarraCuda Pro 10TB Arrives Helium Filled Earlier this month Seagate announced their new ‘Guardian Series’ of Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) and that the BarraCuda name was being revived! Seagate brought back the BarraCuda name in grand fashion as there is a BarraCuda Pro 10TB drive and that makes it the world’s highest capacity consumer HDD. What …more
Inateck 2.5 Inch USB 3.0 HDD External Hard Drive Disk Enclosure One wouldn’t think that USB 3.0 external drives are refreshed that often, but Inateck has been cranking out new and updated external storage drive every year. Legit Reviews has looked at new 2.5-inch USB 3.0 external drive enclosures from Inateck every year since 2014! Back in 2014, I …more
WD My Passport Wireless Pro – 2nd Gen Portable Device Western Digital (WD) introduced the WD My Passport Wireless mobile storage back in 2014 that allowed tech savvy users to wirelessly connect up to eight devices to backup or share content for up to six hours of streaming. The appeal of a wireless drive is …more
ADATA SP550 Series – The Lowest Priced SSDs Around If you are looking for a low cost SSD for you system you have likely seen the ADATA Premier SP550 SSDs for sale online. The Premier SP550 is one of the lowest priced SSDs around and feature a Silicon Motion SM2256 controller and SK Hynix 16nm Triple-Level …more
Crucial MX300 – First 3D TLC Drive For Crucial Crucial announced a new ‘limited edition’ SSD today that the company believes well help show off their brand new Micron 3D TLC NAND Flash memory technology. Yes, Micron is the latest semiconductor manufacturer to move from planar 2D TLC NAND to 3D TLC NAND! Micron says that the …more
Kingston UV400 – First Kingston Mass-Market TLC Drive Last year Kingston Digital released the UV300 SSD series in emerging markets like India, Mexico and Russia. The UV300 series was the first TLC NAND drive for Kingston and was designed to be their low-cost budget friendly Solid-State Drive (SSD). The UV300 series wasn’t anything stellar on the performance …more
OCZ RD400 M.2 SSDs Boast 2,600MB/s Read Speeds The Toshiba XG3 family of client NVMe M.2 PCIe SSDs were quietly launched back in August 2015. The Toshiba XG3 1TB drive just happened to be the highest capacity M.2 2280 drive available on the market and was optimized for high performance PCs. The drive has been …more
If you are one of the lucky few users that have a Thunderbolt 3 Type-C port on your PC or MacBook you might be wondering how you can utilize that port. The folks over at Atech Flash Technology have come up with a compact dual bay SSD docking station called the Blackbird VX-2SSD that takes advantage USB Type-C connector and …more
750 EVO SSD – 2D Planar TLC NAND The Samsung SSD 750 EVO has been shipping since 2015 in Asia, but it was only released in North America in 2016. This SATA III SSD drive represents a new budget line of drives from Samsung that is directly aimed at white box system builders or anyone …more
Storage By WD For Your Raspberry Pi On Pi Day 2016 the folks over at WD Labs released, PiDrive, a custom-engineered WD Hard Drive that is more power efficient than a standard storage drive that will unlock the possibilities of what the Raspberry Pi can do. WD Labs, the skunk works of WD, has been …more
WD Upgrades The My Cloud EX2 With Faster Processor WD launched their My Cloud EX2 dual-bay network-attached storage (NAS) series back in March 2014 and just last month announced that they were updating this popular model by releasing the My Cloud EX2 Ultra, a high-performance, two-bay network attached storage (NAS) system. The original My Cloud EX2 featured …more