You have to admit USB flash drives are extremely useful, I know I love them and use them often to take things with me and make transfers from one computer to another. Patriot has just released an ultra-portable one that…
Patriot has some news today for those that want portable storage but also want speed, a new USB 3.0 flash drive called the Supersonic Rage XT. You can get it is 32gb or 64gb capacities and of course it’s USB…
Kingston recently announced the expansion of their USB 3.0 flash drive lineup with the release of the DataTraveler Elite 3.0. This flash drive is an economically priced USB thumb drive that takes advantage of USB 3.0’s faster transfer speeds. As…
Here’s something cool, a key shaped USB drive. I carry the IronKey on my keychain and it looks like a big hunk of metal basically but this would look like a key just like my other keys. I’m not sure…
More Kingston news today, they’ve just expanded their USB 3.0 flash drive lineup with devices that include capacities of 16gb, 32gb and 64gb with speeds hitting 70MB/s read and 30MB/s write on the USB 3.0 interface. Pricing is from $37…
Kingston has just announced a new SSD, the HyperX 3K that features read speeds up to 555MB/s and write speeds up to 510MB/s. It utilizes a Sandforce SF-2281 controller and the SATA3 interface for decent speeds surely. It will be…
Ok, I’m back, sort of.. I pent the last few days re-installing Windows and everything else because I got new motherboard and CPU. The actual installation part is easy, it’s the getting everything else back installed that I hate as…
Kingston’s HyperX brand originally garnered its reputation making high-speed memory for PC enthusiasts. During this past year Kingston has been branching the HyperX labeling into other products; most recently with their SSD drives and now with today’s review item –…
Looking for speed? How about three time faster than a standard mechanical hard drive? Then Seagate has got what you want in their new Momentus XT hybrid SSD that uses the SATA6 interface for faster speeds. The drive comes with…
I love USB drives, I just think they’re so useful. USB 3.0 drives are even better, but they’re few and far between it seems. Kingston has just announced the DataTraveler HyperX 3.0 USB 3.0 flash drive that comes in 65gb,…
Seagate is at it again, this time making their GoFlex drive even smaller! Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) today announced the availability of its new GoFlex® Slim portable hard drive — a svelte, 9mm, 2.5-inch external drive designed for the latest trend of…
An external Blu-ray writer, well actually it’s a BDXl drive that can burn up to 128gigs of information. Vinpower Digital announced the roll out of their USB 3.0 (backwards compatible with USB 2.0) external BDXL writer, using the Pioneer BDR-206MBK…
Hard drive enclosures can be play an important role in our computer centric lives, they’re great for taking stuff with you. You can get them in big and small sizes and they certainly come in all shapes and designs. Today…
Non CES news, Samsung has just announced USB 3.0 portable and desktop style hard drives with up to 1TB in capacity and even with 256bit full disk encryption. -Samsung Electronics America, Inc., a market leader and award-winning innovator in digital…
It’s been a while since I’ve reviewed any USB drives here on TestFreaks so today I’ve got one that Patriot has sent over. The drive is the Xporter Rage 32gb version or XT as it’s called. The drive features a…
Again with the hard drives today, I wonder if Hitachi and Seagate planned to launched both of their new HDD lines on the same day or was it just a coincidence? The three drives are for desktop, external and OEM…
I have an ECO style drive in my system now for automatic backups with Windows 7, but it’s getting rather full, I need more capacity just for my backups and these new Green drives from Seagate just might do the…
Most SSDs are 2.5” in size, they are some 3.5” ones of course, but RunCore has now joined in with their own 3.5” SSDs that are compatible with SATA6 for speeds of more than 500MB/s and a maximum capacity of…
External storage is a big business, look around and you’ll see all sorts of flash drives and portable hard drives for sale. People use them for everything from backups to transferring files to media uses and they all work well,…
Seagate just released what is probably the largest external hard drive on the market today, a 3TB desktop drive called the FreeAgent GoFlex Desk. Like other GoFlex products it’s, for lack of a better word, flexible. The GoFlex comes with…
