Storage — digital storage, in this case — is where the information resides before being accessed.
Samsung today announced two new SD cards, the PRO Plus and EVO Plus, for content creators and professional users, respectively. I took both out for a spin and found them equally great, thanks to the fast performance, ruggedness, and, most importantly, friendly costs. These cards are available 32GB, 64GB, 120GB, …
The recently released Samsung 980 PRO will soon be no longer the only hot kid on the PCIe 4.0 block. Indeed, Western Digital today announced, among other things, its own NVMe solid-state drive (SSD) of the same next-gen PCIe standard, the WD_BLACK SN850. The WD_BLACK is a relatively new product …
Western Digital today announced two new portable SSDs as major upgrades to the previous versions, the SanDisk Extreme and SanDisk Extreme PRO. Respectively, these two are the next versions of the 2018 SanDisk Extreme and 2019 SanDisk Extreme PRO. Similar design, double the speeds Due to the unchanged names and …
For a couple of years now, I’ve been asking Synology when it’d release a DiskStation server that comes with 10Gbps network capability. Finally, today, it’s here. The NAS maker announced just now the DS1621xs+ that, among other things, has a 10Gbps network port and M.2 SSD slots. Synology DS1621xs+: A …
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 …
If you want to carry a lot of data on the go, access them fast, and have the peace of mind on security—and who doesn’t?—you’ll be interested in what Western Digital announced today, the ArmorLock Security Platform. An all-new solution for data protection It’s a platform because it includes both …
Micron had some big news today for fans of portable SSDs. The memory maker announced the all-new Crucial X6 portable SSD and the latest 2 TB version of the existing Crucial X8 drive it leased late last year. Crucial X6: Slower but tiny and light Unlike the X8, which was …
Synology today announced the availability of its latest 2020 5-bay NAS server, the DiskStation DS1520+. Per the NAS maker’s naming convention, this is a new high-end server for homes and SMBs that can house up to 15 drives. Five on its own and another ten via two expansion units. In …
Western Digital today announced its latest My Passport SSD portable drive. Yes, that popular one with the name as the one released two years ago, which was almost the same as the one released before that. But I’m happy to report that the 2020 version is an entirely different storage …
