SSD

    Western Digital issues firmware update for dying SanDisk SSDs
    Aug 23, 2023 John Aldred

    Western Digital’s been having a bit of a tough time of late with its SanDisk brand. Several of the company’s SanDisk SSDs have been dying…

    SanDisk Extreme Pro SSD

    Stop using SanDisk SSDs or risk losing your data with no warning
    Aug 9, 2023 John Aldred

    It’s been reported that quite a number of SanDisk SSD users have been suffering complete failures with total data losses recently. Between devices bricking themselves,…

    Sharge is a tiny, fast and durable portable SSD for shooting on location
    Jun 21, 2023 John Aldred

    M.2 NVMe SSDs have been out for long enough now that they’re starting to be replaced. Smaller 512GB and 1TB SSDs are being replaced by…

    Toshiba Canvio Slim – Is it still worth getting a USB hard drive in 2023?
    May 9, 2023 John Aldred

    If there’s one constant as a photographer or filmmaker, you can never have enough storage space. No matter how much storage we already have, we…

    The new super rugged SanDisk Pro-G40 SSDs boast 2700MB/sec read and 1900MB/sec read speeds
    Oct 6, 2022 John Aldred

    SanDisk has announced their new Pro-G40 SSD. It’s a super fast and super rugged SSD that offers both USB 3.2 Gen 2 and Thunderbolt 3…

    The Panasonic GH6 will be able to record directly to a USB SSD one week from today
    Sep 20, 2022 John Aldred

    Well, this is one that’ll make a lot of Panasonic GH6 users very happy. Every day in the Panasonic groups over the last few months…

    Not surprisingly, those “30 terabyte” SSDs you can buy at Walmart and AliExpress are all a scam
    Aug 30, 2022 John Aldred

    It’s probably not that much of a surprise to most of us who actually use large storage drives but there seems to be a big…

    SanDisk Professional launches the PRO-BLADE modular and portable SSD ecosystem for creatives
    May 9, 2022 John Aldred

    Western Digital has today announced the new SanDisk Professional PRO-BLADE modular SSD ecosystem targeted toward creatives. It comprises the PRO-BLADE SSD Mag, available in 1-4TB…

    Samsung has announced its UFS 4.0 storage with up to 2,800MB/sec writes and 4,200MB/sec reads
    May 4, 2022 John Aldred

    Samsung Semiconductor has announced its newest UFS storage tech. UFS 4.0 uses Samsung’s 7th Gen V-NAND memory and with a proprietary controller that offers some…

    The new IP65 rated Samsung T7 Shield SSD is built to handle the most demanding of rough situations
    Apr 26, 2022 John Aldred

    Samsung has announced their newest portable SSD, the Samsung T7 Shield. Now, on first glance, especially given the name, it might just sound like a…