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Western Digital My Book Thunderbolt Duo Review

Western Digital has long made excellent external hard drive solutions that appeal to creative types and others who want large capacity local drive access with the fastest interface available. From a Mac perspective, the current interface of choice for speed is Thunderbolt. But to this point we haven’t seen much in the way of direct

Client SSD  ◇  Consumer

Micron RealSSD C400 mSATA SSD Review

Micron has released a new version of their RealSSD C400 SSD in an mSATA form factor. While most consumers aren’t familiar with the C400 line, it closely mirrors the performance and design of the client-facing Crucial m4. The C400 mSATA SSD will be offered through Micron’s OEM partners and will generally be found in the

Client SSD  ◇  Consumer

Kingston HyperX 3K SSD Review

Kingston has launched the HyperX 3K SSD, a new entry in their enthusiast line of client SSDs. The twist with the HyperX 3K compared to its HyperX bigger brother is a simple NAND change. While they both use high-quality 25nm Intel MLC NAND, the 3K is rated for 3,000 P/E cycles where the HyperX is

Client SSD  ◇  Consumer

Crucial Adrenaline Caching SSD Review

The Adrenaline Caching SSD solution is Crucial’s effort to leverage their m4 SSD pedigree to make application acceleration for consumers easy and affordable. Based around the Marvell controller and SATA 6Gb/s interface, the 50GB caching SSD gives consumers an interesting blend of performance, reliability and Micron home-grown NAND in an easy to install caching platform

Consumer  ◇  Portable Storage

Western Digital My Passport Studio Review (2TB)

WD has been in rapid fire mode this year when it comes to refreshing and bumping capacities on their popular line of My Passport and My Passport Studio portable hard drives. The newly increased in capacity (and girth) My Passport Studio picks up on the new design deployed earlier this year in the 1TB My

Client SSD  ◇  Consumer

Corsair Accelerator Series Caching SSD Review

At CES Corsair formally announced they had partnered with NVELO to launch a caching SSD for consumer use. The Corsair Accelerator Series Caching SSDs are shipping now and promise to give users up to a 5X performance boost over a standard hard drive. With hard drives trickling to market at up to 4TB, the idea

Client SSD  ◇  Consumer

OCZ Vertex 4 SSD Review

The OCZ Vertex 4 SSD is a bold step for the company – OCZ has abandoned the high-flying LSI SandForce controller for their own Indilinx Everest 2 in the flagship Vertex 4 client SSD. It could be said that OCZ has had as much to do with SandForce’s success as SandForce has had with OCZ’s.

Client SSD  ◇  Consumer

Plextor PX-M3P SSD Review

When we reviewed the Plextor M3S last year, it earned an Editor’s Choice award for excellent read performance, aggressive pricing and class leading support with the included five year warranty. At CES in January, Plextor showed us the upcoming M3P (P stands for Pro), which from a hardware perspective is nearly identical to the M3S,

Consumer  ◇  Portable Storage

2TB Western Digital My Passport Portable Hard Drive Review

Last week WD announced the latest generation of their popular My Passport portable hard drives. The newly redesigned enclosures surround a 2.5" 15mm Western Digital hard drive that uses four platters to offer capacities up to 2TB, making it the highest capacity drive available in this form factor. The My Passport also picks up USB

Client SSD  ◇  Consumer

Icy Dock DuoSwap 2.5″/3.5″ SATA Hot Swap Drive Caddy Review (MB971SP-B)

Announced earlier this month, the Icy Dock DuoSwap 2.5″/3.5″ SATA Hot Swap Drive Caddy gives buyers an easy solution to connect any size of hard drive or SSD into their desktop computer. Offering twin hot-swap bays, the DuoSwap Caddy supports both 3.5-inch hard drives, as well as 2.5-inch hard drives or SSDs that are 9.5mm