Tag: Disk drive

Plugable USB 3.1 Gen.2 NVMe SSD enclosure & Crucial P1 1TB 3D NAND NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD

Plugable enclosure and Crucial NVMe SSD P1 – Visuals Producer review

NVMe SSDs are meant to be built-in into a computer as a high-speed hard disk replacement or in an external device that usually sells as a black box, i.e. you can’t open it, add or remove SSDs from it. That definition is quickly becoming obsolete, though, as a growing number of vendors such as Plugable and OWC are offering enclosures that allow you to quickly switch between different NVMe SSDs.… Read More Plugable USB 3.1 Gen.2 NVMe SSD enclosure & Crucial P1 1TB 3D NAND NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD

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Put your Mac’s drive in your shirt pocket with the CalDigit Tuff Nano 1TB

Tuff Nano 1TB – Visuals Producer review

CalDigit recently released the second model Tuff Nano, a 1TB version. I got the tomato red one and was curious to see how it would perform in relation to its smaller sibling, the 512GB version. With the Tuff Nano 1TB, you can backup an entire iMac’s built-in Fusion drive and take all that data with… Read More Put your Mac’s drive in your shirt pocket with the CalDigit Tuff Nano 1TB

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Plugable adds small, portable, and extremely fast NVMe Thunderbolt 3 drive to its portfolio

Plugable Thunderbolt 3 NVMe drive 1TB

Plugable, a developer of USB, Thunderbolt, Bluetooth and power-related devices, islaunching the Plugable Thunderbolt 3 NVMe External SSD, a solid state drive that offers creators up to 1 TB or 2TB of storage and speeds of up to 2800 MB/sec read and 1800 MB/sec write, all without the need for an external power connection. The 1TB model will be yours for $299 and the 2TB model for $499, the company says.… Read More Plugable adds small, portable, and extremely fast NVMe Thunderbolt 3 drive to its portfolio

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CalDigit Tuff Nano, the smallest, toughest mobile NVMe SSD on the market

CalDigit Tuff Nano mobile NVMe SSD – Visuals Producer review

CalDigit released what must be the smallest mobile NVMe SSD currently available. The 74 grammes CalDigit Tuff Nano has a capacity of 512GB (soon also available in a 1TB version). The Tuff Nano is slightly bigger than two CompactFlash cards laid next to each other and slightly thicker than two of them stapled on top of each other. It comes with two cables in a sturdy plastic storage box.… Read More CalDigit Tuff Nano, the smallest, toughest mobile NVMe SSD on the market

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Run DriveDx and find out how healthy your hard drive or SSD is

From the day I owned a computer, I’ve always wanted to check my disk drives’ health on a regular basis and a few decades ago that became possible thanks to S.M.A.R.T., a self-monitoring system built into all hard disks and SSDs that is supposed to enable an app like Disk Utility on a Mac to warn you when a drive is near-dead. That’s where Drive Dx comes in.… Read More Run DriveDx and find out how healthy your hard drive or SSD is

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Delock USB 3.0 to SATA adapter works better than Angelbird’s twice as expensive USB-C to SATA converter

Delock USB 3.0 to SATA converter review

The Delock SATA to USB 3.0 adapter is built around the most reliable chipset, the Asmedia one. The €24.00 Delock “Adapter USB 3.0 > SATA 6 Gb/s” is a three-part adapter. The box contains the actual SATA to USB adapter with a DC input and USB 3.0 type micro-B female connector, a corresponding USB 3.0 cable and a power adapter.… Read More Delock USB 3.0 to SATA adapter works better than Angelbird’s twice as expensive USB-C to SATA converter

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