Kingston recently released a new portable SSD offering speeds of up to 1,050MB/s – the Kingston XS1000 External SSD. This tiny storage drive is slower than the XS2000 Kingston previously released, but it is cheaper and has wider compatibility than the XS2000. The XS1000 uses a USB Gen3.2 Gen2 interface, while the XS2000 uses the …
Crucial recently released its latest external storage solution – the Crucial X10 Pro and X9 Pro Portable SSDs. The X10 Pro offers sequential speeds of up to 2,100MB/s, while the X9 Pro offers up to 1,000MB/s sequential speeds; and is available in up to 4TB capacity. Crucial’s latest portable SSDs are IP55 rated, have password …
Samsung released its T7 Shield Portable SSD with 4TB capacity early this year. At that time, the 4TB T7 Shield came with an MSRP of $429.99. I was checking out some of the hottest-selling items on Amazon and noticed that the T4 Shield 4TB SSD was trending. It turns out it’s currently discounted, with 30% …
With the advancement of SSDs, especially NVMe SSDs, portable SSDs have also improved. Some portable SSDs are around four times faster than the fastest SATA SSDs. You can play games, even AAA-titled games like Cyberpunk 2077, using a portable SSD. Today, we’ll review Western Digital’s latest portable SSD – the WD Black P40 Portable Gaming …
A couple of months ago, Samsung released a new addition to its T7 portable SSD family – the Samsung T7 Shield. There are now three variants of the T7 PSSD: the T7 Touch, and T7 portable SSD, and the new T7 Shield. The T7 Touch was the first in the T7 family, then Samsung released a non-Touch version, …
Samsung recently released a new variant of its T7 series portable SSD – meet the Samsung T7 Shield. Based on its name alone, something tells us that this new portable SSD is made with durability and “toughness” in mind. Not only that, the T7 series is Samsung’s faster variant of portable drives. It offers a …
Towards the end of last year, SanDisk updated its portable SSD lineup. They released the SanDisk Extreme PRO Portable SSD V2 and Extreme Portable SSD V2. Today, we are going to check out and review both versions 2 of SanDisk’s portable SSD. To be honest, the naming scheme is a bit confusing; since it is …
As internal storage drives become faster with each generation, so are external and portable storage drives. Today we are checking out Crucial’s latest portable storage drive – the Crucial X8 Portable SSD. I’m not entirely sure why it’s called “X8”, but basically, it’s an NVMe SSD storage drive offering sequential read speeds of up to …