Lexar’s new SL500 Portable SSD is an extremely compact 2TB drive designed for content creators, including iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max owners who want to record high-quality Apple ProRes video at 60 frames per second. The device sports a USB 3.2 Gen2x2 design, meaning that its performance on Mac devices is half its theoretical … Read more
Lexar’s new SL600 portable SSD promises speeds up to 2,000 MB/s and comes in 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB capacities. The Lexar SL600 utilizes USB 3.2 gen 2×2 performance, promising up to 2,000 MB/s read and write speeds. While the footnotes on Lexar’s product page explain that actual performance may vary — as is always the … Read more
TerraMaster says its new D5 Hybrid is the industry’s first to combine two series of slots for both standard HDDs and M.2 NVMe SSDs to support both “hot and cold” storage. The D5 Hybrid is not TerraMaster’s first drive that supports both NVMe M.2 SSDs and SATA HDDs/SSDs, but it is the first that is … Read more
TerraMaster says its new F4-424 Pro NAS (network attached storage) is “the most powerful 4-bay NAS to date” thanks to its 8-core 8-thread CPU, integrated GPU, 32GB of RAM, and dual M.2 NVMe slots for SSD caching. Synology has been photographers’ go-to brand when it comes to NAS, but TerraMaster seems intent on unseating the … Read more
Other World Computing (OWC) announced the Express 1M2, its first USB4 drive and what it says is the fastest single-blade NVMe drive to date with real-world speeds up to 3,151 MB/s. Designed to work with both USB4 and Thunderbolt devices, OWC says the new compact enclosure can reach speeds that surpass traditional SSD interfaces and … Read more
The latest update to LumaFusion, the mobile video editor from LumaTouch, is the first to allow direct drive editing off an attached SSD when connected to the iPhone 15 family of smartphones. LumaFusion is a multitrack editing platform for iOS, ChromeOS, and Android that positions itself as able to deliver professional-caliber video editing with a … Read more
SanDisk has denied that hardware issues are to blame for the recent widespread issues in its portable SSD lines. Yesterday, a report from Austrian-based data recovery company Attingo claimed that after fixing a large number of SanDisk portable SSD products, it had determined the issues that have caused widespread reliability issues were linked to two … Read more
An Austria-based data recovery expert asserts that the issues that currently plague SanDisk portable SSD products are caused by “construction weakness,” which includes the solder material used and improperly sized components. SanDisk portable SSDs have been plagued by reliability issues to such a degree that PetaPixel can no longer recommend them and is not alone. … Read more