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This massive 16TB external SSD offers speeds up to 2,800MB/sec and costs a whopping $3,300

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Sometimes, you just need a whole lot of external storage and you need it to be really, really fast – especially if you’re shooting video. There are a lot of great fast options out there from companies like Western Digital, SanDisk and Samsung, but when it comes to speed and capacity, Sabrent really takes the cake with this 16TB monster of a drive.

Claiming speeds of up to 2,800MB/sec, the Sabrent Rocket XTRM-Q 16-TB external SSD actually contains a pair of 8TB NVMe SSDs in a tough aluminium housing with a rubber case. And it costs a whopping $3,300 – unless you get it from Amazon, where it’s currently available for the relative bargain of $2,900.

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HyperDisk wants to bring super-fast SSDs down to wallet-friendly prices

Portable storage is a must for all us photographers and filmmakers if we want to store all those huge RAW photos and 4K (or even 6K) videos. I guess we all want a large portable drive, with fast read and write speed, but at a decent price. Enter HyperDisk – it’s a tiny SSD, with up to 1,000 MB/s read and write speed, with the price starting at $85.

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The HyperCube gives iPhone and iPad users access external HDs and SSDs

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This is interesting for your iOS folks. There’s a new Kickstarter in town for something called the HyperCube. It’s an interesting little device that sits in between your phone’s charger cable and the USB socket and provides a microSD slot as well as a USB slot for plugging in a hard drive, SSD or flash drive.

When it hits retail (which won’t be for a while), it’s going to be $49, although it’s as low as $29 right now through the Kickstarter campaign.

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iOS13 finally gets direct access to external storage, report claims

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According to a report on 9to5Mac, it looks like Apple might be starting to loosen their grip on external storage with iOS devices. New details shared from the Worldwide Developers Conference, seems like apps will be able to access external storage directly, just like Android, rather than having to import through the photos app and store on the camera roll.

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