Impartial. No-nonsense. Real stuff.
All reviews and overviews on this website are based on thorough hands-on testing and real-world first-hand experience.
Note: This category also includes previews, first-takes, and opinions—all derived from initial impressions, past experience, or preliminary assessments.
The Apricorn Aegis Padlock SSD is a niche product that doesn’t apply to general use. But if you have it, chances are you’ll find it super useful anyway. Indeed, this little portable drive is a lot more than regular extra storage space. It’s an impenetrable digital storage vault, complete with …
Western Digital’s second go at super-fast portable SSD, the SanDisk Extreme PRO, is not to be taken lightly. It’s the first in the SanDisk Extreme family (including the PRO and non-PRO lineups) to support the venerable USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 (20Gbps) standard. As such, it’s a direct replacement for the …
The 2020 SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD is a clear improvement over the previous 2018 model. While sharing the same name and design, on the inside, it’s a new drive entirely with more features and much faster performance. Considering the drive’s support for USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10Gbps), which is getting …
Despite the similarly rugged design, the WD Black P50 Game Drive SSD is in an entirely different league from the P10 that came out in early 2019. The new portable drive, first released in late 2019, houses an NVMe SSD inside to deliver many times the speed of its older …
The all-new WD My Passport SSD of 2020, first announced late last month, is different from the previous models. It now has a different look, a slightly larger physical size, and, most importantly, much faster. But it inherits some valuable similarities, too, from the rugged design to the built-in hardware …
Micron’s second entry into portable solid-state drives, the Crucial X6, doesn’t have the same bang as the first, the X8. But it has some novelty of its own. This is one of the tiniest, if not the smallest, 2TB portable storage on the market. (Rumor has that there’ll be even …
Micron’s first try into the realm of portable solid-state drives proved to be a big deal. The Crucial X8 was the fastest USB-based portable SSD I tested 10 months ago. Now, with the release of the 2 TB version, it’s still the one with the fastest read speed on the …
At some $120 for 500GB — or $220 and $380 for 1TB and 2TB, respectively — the Samsung T7 Touch is quite a great deal. Or you can get the non-touch version, the Samsung T7, for $10 to $30 less, depending on the capacities. While the Samsung T7 and Samsung …
