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
Inateck FE2005 2.5″ USB 3.0 Drive Enclosure Back in December 2014, we had a look at Inateck’s FE2006 USB 3.0 drive enclosure and later tested the FD1006C SUB 3.0 enclosure. We found that each performed very well and priced very inexpensively for those looking to pop a 2.5″ drive in and get some speedy external …more
Intel SSD DC P3608 – Dual NVMe Controllers For Serious Performance Those following Solid-State Drive market have been waiting months for Intel to finally release the Intel SSD DC P3608 and SSD DC P3520 Series drives as they are the latest and greatest NVMe drives coming to replace the already released Intel SSD DC P3700, P3600, and …more
Kingston DataTraveler microDuo 3C Type-C Flash Drive Review With the release of the Intel Z170 chipset, Intel is now officially supporting the latest revision of the USB specifications, 3.1. USB 3.1 and Type-C are commonly linked together, they are in fact two different parts of the USB specification; Type-C is for the physical connector, but …more
OCZ Trion 100 Series – Toshiba TC58 and TLC NAND Flash Memory OCZ Storage Solutions today launched the Trion 100 series of Solid-State Drives (SSDs) that are the company’s latest value-oriented storage option for those wanting an affordable SATA III SSD. The OCZ Trion 100 series is an all Toshiba solution that features a Toshiba …more
SSD Review: 850 EVO Versus 850 PRO For the past decade we’ve been hearing people say that it was only a matter of time before Solid-State Drives (SSD’s) will nearly completely kill off magnetic drives. Traditional hard drives will still exist in niche markets they said, but SSDs will eventually reign supreme with regards to …more
Rugged External Storage For Mac Users ADATA is very well known for their storage products which range from SSDs and thumb drives to memory cards and RAM modules. They also have a comprehensive line of external storage drives for nearly every application. We all know how fragile some external drives can be so they offer …more
Addonics Technologies makes some very unique and innovative storage drive adapters and chances are if you’ve ever built a custom system that had a unique data storage solution you’ve seen some of their products on the market. Addonics has always been good at developing special IO and connector converters that allow you to install new …more