First Look at USB 3.1 Performance With ASUS! It took some time to get here, but devices supporting the USB 3.1 standard are finally coming to market. Besides the obvious new logo and SUPERSPEED+ name change, the USB 3.1 standard doubles the transfer rate of USB 3.0 and the encoding overhead has been greatly reduced …more

The Vector Gets More Reliable Ever since OCZ went through a bit of a transformation after the departure of then CEO Ryan Peterson, they’ve renewed their focus to prioritize quality and reliability. Prior to then, time to market appeared to be the main driver and it showed with OCZ having several product gaffes on both …more

HyperX Predator M.2 PCIe G2 x4 SSD HyperX today released the HyperX Predator PCIe SSD! This highly anticipated drive was supposed to ship in February 2015, but was delayed a number of weeks in order to give Kingston time to perfect the firmware on their new highest-end SSD. Getting the HyperX Predator PCIe SSD firmware dialed in was …more

Seagate Wireless 500GB Over the past several years, many companies have come out with wireless storage options for the ever growing mobile community;  Seagate released the Wireless Plus a couple of years ago.  At CES 2015, they announced the Seagate Wireless, a mobile storage drive that is designed to stream music, video, photos and other …more

WD’s First 4-Bay NAS Server WD launched their My Cloud multi-bay network-attached storage (NAS) devices in 2013 and over the past two years WD NAS models went from making up 8% of the 2 and 4-bay NAS market to having 26% of the market share in December 2014. Not bad for a growing product segment and …more

Seagate Seven Becomes This Thinnest 500GB Portable Drive Seagate announced a handful of new products at CES 2015 and let it be known that this year will be the company’s 35th year in the storage business. Among the new products being announced was the Seagate Seven, which true to its name is a 7mm thick …more

Battle Of The Budget SSDs – Crucial MX200 and BX100 Crucial and Micron have been hard and heavy in the SSD arena and since they are also a big player in the semiconductor business they have a good foundation for the storage media platform. We had a look at the MX100 drive back in June of …more

Inateck FD1006C Review Are you looking for an affordable USB 3.0 docking station with USB Attached SCSI Protocol (UASP) support that can be used with both 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch SATA storage drives? The Inateck FD1006C docking station costs just $26.99 shipped and features a UASP-enabled host controller that will allow you transfer data at speeds of …more

VisionTek USB 3.0 Pocket SSD Drive Late last year VisionTek released a USB 3.0 Flash drive called the Visiontek USB 3.0 Pocket SSD Drive that offers up to 455MB/s read and 440MB/s write on sequential file transfers when used on a system that supports the USB Attached SCSI Protocol (UASP). The drive is also rated …more

Kingston UHS-I U3 microSDXC Card 4K2K video recording is getting more popular, as such we need faster media to record the higher resolution.  Kingston works hard to keep up with the technology needs of today’s consumer. At CES 2015 they announced the microSD UHS-I Speed Class 3 card, capable of 90MB/s read, and 80MB/s write. …more

Plextor M6e Black PCIe SSD Review Plextor made headlines at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month when they debuted the M6e Black Edition PCI Express Gen 2×2 SSD as well as the M7e PCI Express Gen 2×4 SSD. The Plextor M7e PCIe SSD looked amazing at the show and in CrystalDiskMark it was showing …more

Samsung Portable SSD T1 250GB Review Sexy and luxurious are two adjectives you don’t often see when one is talking about portable storage drives. Samsung is no stranger to beautiful designs and the South Korean electronics giant has an actual global design team that is tasked with the job of bringing good looking products to market. Someone …more

One most anticipated products of CES 2015 are the next round of PCI Express Solid-State Drives (SSDs) that so many have been waiting for. In 2014 Legit Reviews was able to take a look at the Samsung 941 XP M.2 PCIe SSD along with the Plextor M6e M.2 PCIe SSD in both single drive and RAID …more

The Storage Visions Conference has kicked off and Legit Reviews is at the show to check out the latest news when it comes to storage technology. One of our first stops was the SATA-IO booth where WD is going to be demonstrating the world’s fastest 4 TB hybrid drive. WD’s prototype drive is basically a …more