External hard drive

REVIEW – It’s fascinating how Apple’s decisions can make accessories obsolete or even boost the market for others. For instance, when Apple started charging exorbitant prices for memory/storage upgrades on their Macs and smart devices, companies like Satechi came up with solutions that let customers use more affordable memory chips for storage. I recently bought […]

REVIEW – Years ago, I bought an external hard drive with a whopping 740 Megabytes. Not Gigabytes, not Terabytes—just Megabytes. It cost hundreds of dollars, and now I work on individual files that are twice as large! How far we’ve come. Today, many hard drives aren’t even drives at all; they’re SSD chips that read

REVIEW – I’m not sure how long this review of the TerraMaster D6-320 6-bay External Hard Disk Enclosure will be. Once set up and turned on, the D6-320 just kinda sits there doing its thing—and not much else. So, is there anything to say about a boring product such as this? I can say that

REVIEW – Long gone are the days when we have to walk around with a large enclosure to carry additional storage space with us. These days, we can buy external SSD drives that are small and compact. Many of those designs limit us to whatever size/capacity we buy since they are sealed. Imagine a well-built,

REVIEW – In a digital world, one of the most important assets that we have are the files on our computers.  They can be photos of family, spreadsheets with our budgets, papers for school, or a thousand other things.  Whatever they are, we don’t want to lose them.  Part of protecting our data is backing

REVIEW – Now that many people are working from home, portable data storage has become more important. And since you’re toting around that sensitive data, better make sure it’s secure. That’s exactly what DataLocker has set out to do – secure our data with portable drives like the DL4 FE 1 TB Solid State Drive

REVIEW – Remember way back in the day when solid state drives were measured in dollars per megabyte? And it wasn’t that long ago the measure was dollars per gigabyte. Though while still relatively expensive, today’s default order of magnitude is well into the terabytes range. This all adds up to solid state drive capacity,

REVIEW – There are numerous uses for external portable drives. I have several portable drives, but when the opportunity to review the 1TB Rocket Nano External Aluminum SSD came along, I jumped at the chance to check out one of the smallest drives I’ve seen yet. What is it? The Rocket Nano External Aluminum SSD

REVIEW – As a Photographer and Videographer, I use several portable drives. Maintaining the integrity of my footage is critical for my business and for my clients. I am always on the lookout for a good, fast, compact and portable SSD drive with good capacity. The specs of this Sabrent Rocket Pro USB 3.2 External

REVIEW – When I am on location for a photo or video shoot, I have a strict practice of backing up all of my media before I leave so that I have redundancy just in case of any mishap. For years I have done this using portable hard drives that have been plug and play

REVIEW – Last year I designed a custom gaming PC and had my local computer shop build it for me.  It was the first time that I had designed a computer that did not have a traditional hard drive; instead, it used a super-fast 500 GB Samsung NVMe SSD 960 EVO M.2.  To maximize performance,

REVIEW – Bluetooth – it seems like it’s everywhere now. How does the SecureDrive BT hardware encrypted external portable hard drive utilize Bluetooth and your mobile device for drive security? Let’s find out! What is it? The SecureDrive BT hardware encrypted external portable hard drive is a USB hard drive that uses your mobile device

About a month ago I reviewed the datAshur PRO password protected flash drive from iStorage. I was so happy with the datAshur PRO that I am now following up with a review of the 1TB capacity diskAshur2  Solid State Drive.  We are all aware of the risks of our data falling into the wrong hands.  Whether