OWC Digital is on a releasing spree of small, extremely robust and very fast external bus-powered SSD drives. Not that long ago, we had the tiny Envoy Elektron which is USB 3.2 Gen 2 only, but the latest to hit the streets is the Thunderbolt 3 and USB 3.2 Gen 2 Envoy Pro FX.… Read More OWC Envoy Pro FX, an extremely fast robust SSD drive
The tiny OWC Envoy Pro Elektron is the solid aluminium packaged OWC Aura advanced NVMe based drive that comes in 240GB, 480GB, 1TB and 2TB formats.… Read More Tiny OWC Envoy Pro Elektron USB-C 3.2 drive with huge performance
The Crucial P5 M.2 NVMe Gen 3 module is blazingly fast. The 2TB model I received easily handles 3400MB/s read and 3000 MB/s write speeds. More importantly, the P5 is capable of sustaining that speed over longer periods of time, not just bursts.… Read More Crucial P5 SSD Review
The OWC Envoy Express enclosure is an empty NVMe enclosure with Thunderbolt 3 port and cable. Its cable isn’t integrated as with many other such enclosures, which is one huge plus. In addition, the Envoy Express comes with a clear plastic mounting plate that you attach to any Mac’s or PC’s surface with a glue-less strip. That allows you to mount and unmount the attachment plate many times without losing any of its attachment power. It’s all quite unique and attractive.… Read More Review of OWC’s Envoy Express NVMe module enclosure
Hedge, the fast video/audio/image file offloading app, has been upgraded with Presets. Presets may not sound like a big deal, but they actually make life a lot easier, especially when you’re dealing with a lot of identically named memory cards and SSDs.… Read More Hedge gets Presets
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
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
With iPads and iPhones now capable of accessing data on external devices, I reckoned it was time to try out that new feature, so I got myself a test unit of a SanDisk iXPand Flash Drive, a USB memory stick with a somewhat flexible Lightning connector at the opposite end.… Read More SanDisk iXPand Flash Drive gives your iOS device instantly available extra space
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
The ToughTech Secure m3 is an external, 2.5in drive enclosure for encrypted file storage. It comes with three hardware encryption keys. The company also offers to buy an encryption key creator tool for when you need to generate your own keys.… Read More CRU ToughTech Secure m3 Review
