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
Samsung Portable SSD T3 2TB Review Samsung’s mighty fast and compact Portable SSD T1 that was launched last year has been improved and had it’s capacity increased! Samsung unveiled the Portable SSD T3 at CES 2016 and we’ve patiently waited for a review sample to show up that we could take a look at ourselves. …more
OCZ Trion 150 SSD Series – Better Than The Original? Last year OCZ Storage Solutions released the Trion 100 SSD series with Toshiba’s A19nm Triple-Level Cell (TLC) NAND Flash and aimed it at consumers looking for an affordable upgrade for their old school hard drive. Some of you might recall that we evaluated the OCZ Trion …more
Kingston DataTraveler 2000 Encrypted Flash Drive Review Kingston is one of the most well known memory and USB flash drive manufacturers around the world. They are constantly keeping up with technology and foreseeing the needs of users. Recently at CES 2016, they announced their latest flash drive, the DataTraveler 2000. The DataTraveler 2000 has several interesting …more
Firmware Update Enables Bootable RAID in HyperX Predator Drives When the Intel Z170 chipset was released, one of the features we were looking forward to was the option to enable a bootable RAID utilizing M.2 drives. Kingston provided us a couple of their HyperX Predator M.2 PCIe 240GB drives to test this feature. Since the …more
The first USB Flash Drive that I ever reviewed on Legit Reviews was the 16MB DiskOnKey Pro made by a company called M-Systems. M-Systems was later acquired by SanDisk, which was just acquired this year by Western Digital. The 16MB DiskOnKey Pro was available for $19.99, was marketed as being able to hold 11 floppy disks …more
Blackbird MX-1 USB 3.1 PCIe Add-in Card If you are looking for an easy way to add USB 3.1 Type-A & Type-C ports to an older PC that doesn’t have any the only real option you have is to install a PCI-Express x4 add-in card which provides a pair of USB 3.1 ports. This is …more
Inateck FE2008C Review Do you have a fancy new USB Type-C port, but no devices to use on it? The folks over at Inateck have released an USB Type-C 2.5-inch external drive enclosure that features USB Attached SCSI Protocol (UASP) support! The enclosure runs $24.99 shipped, can be used on any USB-C port and offers data …more
Crucial BX200 SSD – Affordable Entry Level TLC NAND Flash Drives It’s hard for enthusiasts to grasp that as we near the end of 2015 that a large portion of PC users around the world have yet to experience the performance benefits that an SSD has to offer. The overall cost of SSDs has come …more
Samsung SSD 950 PRO 512GB M.2 PCie SSD Since becoming mainstream some 40 years most have forgotten the magic of the Personal Computer (PC). But how they have changed the course of humanity and what it brings to our daily lives is undeniable. Sure the PC is all grown-up and unit sales are still slowing …more