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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

Client SSD  ◇  Consumer

Thunderbolt Storage With Any 2.5″ Hard Drive or SSD

We just completed a review of the Seagate Thunderbolt adapter which is designed for Seagate’s line of GoFlex portable hard drives. The Thunderbolt adapter is appealing, but with current Seagate externals it can only go so far, equaling USB 3.0 and FireWire 800 speeds due to the limitations of the external hard drives offered. What’s

Client Accessories  ◇  Consumer

Seagate GoFlex Thunderbolt Adapter Review

Seagate’s claim to fame when it comes to both their GoFlex desktop hard drive line and the GoFlex portable hard drive line are the adapters that allow the user to swap between interfaces. Seagate has long supported USB, USB 3.0 and FireWire options, but at CES they announced a new Thunderbolt option. This gives Mac

Client SSD  ◇  Consumer

OWC Mercury Aura Pro Express 6G Review (480GB)

We’ve reviewed OWC’s perpetually growing line of Apple MacBook Air SSDs a few times, most recently the 240GB capacity of their Mercury Aura Pro Express 6G, which bested the SSDs Apple includes with the MacBook Air in every single benchmark we ran and in one case the OWC drubbed the Apple offerings by 10 times.

Client SSD  ◇  Consumer

Kingston SSDNow KC100 SSD Review

The Kingston SSDNow KC100 may sit in Kingston’s business-class family of SSDs, but don’t let the standard grey casing fool you – it’s a performance drive through and through. Sharing the same high-throughput components as their enthusiast-grade HyperX SSD, the Kingston KC100 gives client users within the enterprise up to 555 MB/s read speeds and

Consumer

Apple TV Review (2012)

The latest Apple TV goes well beyond an Apple side project, to something that even serious home theater enthusiasts could consider. The third generation Apple TV finally boasts 1080p high definition output, along with updates that include Apple’s powerful A5 processor and an updated user interface. From the outside, Apple TV users won’t notice anything

Consumer  ◇  Desktop Storage (External)

OWC Mercury Elite Pro Qx2 Review

OWC has offered the OWC Mercury Elite Pro Qx2 for a while now, but over time they’ve managed to update the unit with compelling features and now, with support for up the 16TB of storage via four Hitachi Deskstar 5K4000 hard drives. The four-bay OWC Mercury Elite Pro Qx2 is highlighted by its all metal body, quad

Consumer

Samsung Optical Smart Hub Review

In an era of increasing computing mobility thanks to tablets and smartphones, there’s a price premium for storage. Many storage companies are trying to find creative ways around this, creating a new category of wirelessly accessible storage. Samsung’s take on this space is around providing modern access to legacy content – old movies, family photos