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Over two years ago, I reviewed the Micron Crucial X6 and thought it was the tiniest portable SSD that’s fast and spacious. I’d sound like a broken record today if you asked me to describe the company’s latest portable SSD, the Crucial X9 Pro. And I’d only be more right. …
Per conventional wisdom of portable storage: If you get a Thunderbolt 3 (or 4) drive, it won’t work with USB despite fitting perfectly into a USB-C port. That changed on October 5, 2022, when the SanDisk Professional PRO-G40 SSD, the latest in Western Digital’s PRO storage lineup, arrived. And the …
Western Digital unveiled its PRO-BLADE Mag in May this year, a concept harkening back to the era of the Zip Disk—or modular storage. The PRO-BLADE TRANSPORT is part of this new lineup. It’s essentially the portable “reader” of the PRO-BLADE SSD Mag—it’s the Zip Drive, so to speak. So, similarly, …
The new WD BLACK P40 is a slightly smaller and more colorful version of the P50 that came out almost two years ago. And by “colorful”, I don’t mean it’s no longer black—it most definitely still is a black drive. However, the new portable SSD now comes with two RGB …
On April 26, 2022, Samsung released the T7 Shield—a new variant of its flagship portable solid-state drives (SSDs), the T7 Touch, and T7 that came out in January and July 2020. For the most part, the new mobile storage device is essentially the same as the T7 version but now …
The Armor A66 is the first portable hard drive I’ve reviewed in a long time—since the WD My Passport in September 2019—and it might be my last. With solid-state drives (SSDs) getting more affordable, there are fewer and fewer reasons to get hard-drive-based portable storage. On top of that, all …
The SanDisk Professional G-Drive SSD is the latest in Western Digital’s large portable family, including the previous SanDisk Extreme/PRO and WD My Passport brands. But it has some minor novelties of its own: The look and the HFS+ pre-configured file system—it’s ready for Time Machine backup right out of the …
