🛒New Samsung T5 EVO Puts up to 8TB of Rugged Storage in Your Pocket
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Samsung today unveiled its T5 EVO portable state drive (SSD)—the first on the market that can hold up to 8TB …
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Samsung T9 Review (vs. Crucial X10 Pro): Totally Fast but Could Use a Price-Cut
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The Samsung T9 Portable SSD, announced on October 3, is easily the best USB external storage the electronics giant has …
Synology BeeDrive Review: A Surprisingly Effective Little Backup Solution
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At first glance, the Synology BeeDrive portable SSD, first announced in May 2023, is an odd device. It has nothing …
Micron Crucial X10 Pro Review (vs. X9 Pro): Turning Things up to Eleven
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On the one hand, the Crucial X10 Pro is Micron’s first USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 (20 Gbps) portable SSD—rivaling the …
Crucial X9 Pro Review: A Surprisingly Fast, Spacious, and Compact Portable SSD
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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 …
SanDisk Professional PRO-G40 SSD Review: Rugged, Fast, Versatile, and Expensive
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Per conventional wisdom of portable storage: If you get a Thunderbolt 3 (or 4) drive, it won’t work with USB …
SanDisk PRO-BLADE TRANSPORT (with a 2TB SSD Mag) Review: A Proprietary and Super-fast Portable Storage
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Western Digital unveiled its PRO-BLADE Mag in May this year, a concept harkening back to the era of the Zip …
WD BLACK P40 Game Drive Review (vs. P50): A More Compact, Colorful Alternative
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The new WD BLACK P40 is a slightly smaller and more colorful version of the P50 that came out almost …
Samsung T7 Shield Review: An Excellent Rugged Portable SSD for Anyone
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On April 26, 2022, Samsung released the T7 Shield—a new variant of its flagship portable solid-state drives (SSDs), the T7 …
Silicon Power Armor A66 Review: A Solid, yet Borderline Obsolete, Portable Drive
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The Armor A66 is the first portable hard drive I’ve reviewed in a long time—since the WD My Passport in …
SanDisk Professional G-Drive SSD Review: An Exciting Pro-Grade Portable Drive
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The SanDisk Professional G-Drive SSD is the latest in Western Digital’s large portable family, including the previous SanDisk Extreme/PRO and …
iStorage diskAshur M2 Review: A Tiny Ultra-Secure Storage Vault Oddity
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In many ways, the new diskAshur M2 portable drive is the upgrade to iStorage’s datAshur PRO2 that came out in …
OWC Envoy Pro SX Review (vs. Samsung X5): A Bit Underwhelming
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The OWC Envoy Pro SX is the second Thunderbolt-exclusive portable SSD I’ve reviewed, long after the Samsung X5. Part of …
WD Black D30 Game Drive SSD Review: Solid Add-on Storage for Consoles
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The WD Black D30 Game Drive SSD, first announced in May 2021, is both more and less versus the previous …
