Storage

Introduction We have personally been reviewing Seagate branded Solid Sate Drives for nearly a decade and a half now (and ‘consumer orientated’ Seagate SSDs since ~2013). In that time, we...

Introduction There certainly is no denying that PCIe-5.0 x4 Solid State Drives are ‘faster’ than the previous PCIe 4.0 x4 generation. That however is not the same as saying that...

Introduction Early last year Micron made the decision to do some much needed internal housecleaning of their various brands. While it was indeed sad to see the era of Micron’s...

A fresh refresh It certainly has been a minute since we took a long hard look at a new LaCie storage device, but that is not all that surprising. Beyond...

A further refinement to SP’s rugged blueprint Due to the requirements of our job we, like many in similar situations, are always on the lookout for portable storage solutions. Good...

Ruggedization Done (mostly) Right These days the state of portable external HDD storage is pretty much yawn worthy. Another year, another small tweak here or there to differentiate the ‘new’...

Cooling, Performance and Value? Yes Please! From the moment Solid-State Drives started using the “M.2” form-factor we have been recommending that buyers use either a heat spreader (for secondary storage)...

The Wolf At The Door Recently we took a pair of Exos X20’s for a test drive and walked away very, very impressed with Seagate’s Twenty Terabyte market strategy. Without...

Stop… it’s not hammer time. In Seagate’s ongoing Sisyphean struggle to meet the market’s insatiable demand for storage it should come as no surprise that last year’s ‘Exos X18’ and...

Novice NAS on a Budget While it is our firm opinion, that a families first Network Attached Storage device should be a four bay, the fact of the matter is...