DAS
Western Digital had unveiled the SanDisk Professional PRO-BLADE modular SSD ecosystem in mid-2022 to serve the needs of the professional market. Compact and sturdy NVMe drives (PRO-BLADE SSD Mag) swappable across discrete bus-powered enclosures (PRO-BLADE TRANSPORT), and also compatible with a multi-bay reader (PRO-BLADE STATION) have perfectly fit the requirements of multi-user / multi-site workflows in the content capture industry. Read on for a detailed look at the first-generation PRO-BLADE SSD Mags and the PRO-BLADE TRANSPORT enclosure. In addition to the evaluation of the performance consistency, power consumption, and thermal profile, an analysis of the internals is also included.
SanDisk Extreme 510 Portable SSD Capsule Review
Rapid advancements in flash technology has coincided with the rise of USB 3.0 as an ubiquitous high-speed interface on computers. This has led to the appearance of small and...
7 by Ganesh T S on 6/23/2016AKiTiO Thunder3 PCIe SSD Thunderbolt DAS Review
The benefits of Thunderbolt 3 and its 40 Gbps link are best realized in a daisy-chain configuration involving multiple high-bandwidth I/O peripherals. The Alpine Ridge Thunderbolt 3 controller in...
28 by Ganesh T S on 6/2/2016QNAP Expands Thunderbolt NAS / DAS Lineup with TVS-x82T Series
QNAP recently held a product launch event in San Jose. The main announcement was the follow-up to their TVS-871T released late last year. The first generation Thunderbolt NAS came...
19 by Ganesh T S on 5/13/2016Drobo 5D with BeyondRAID - Protected Direct-Attached Storage Made Simple
Drobo's direct-attached and network-attached storage units are quite popular in the market, but we have never had the opportunity to evaluate them on AnandTech. At CES 2016, we met...
74 by Ganesh T S on 4/25/2016Thunderbolt 3 in Action: Akitio Thunder3 Duo Pro DAS Review
A lot of attention has been paid to high-speed I/O interfaces for computing systems over the last five years. Flash-based storage media capable of multi-Gbps throughput have become very...
60 by Ganesh T S on 4/14/2016SanDisk Extreme 900 USB 3.1 Gen 2 Portable SSD Review
SanDisk launched the Extreme 900 SSD at Computex 2015. The claim to fame was the availability of almost 2TB of flash in a bus-powered enclosure with a USB 3.1...
31 by Ganesh T S on 4/11/2016LaCie Porsche Design Mobile Type-C External HDD Capsule Review
Seagate launched a host of direct-attached storage products under the LaCie brand name at CES earlier this year. Though the LaCie Chrome USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C external SSD...
12 by Ganesh T S on 3/31/2016USB Flash Drives - Power Consumption Measurement using Plugable's USBC-TKEY
The power consumed by USB peripherals such as flash drives has typically not been much of a concern. However, with OTG support on the rise, mounting external storage via...
20 by Ganesh T S on 3/18/2016Samsung Portable SSD T3 Review
Samsung launched the Portable SSD T3 at CES 2016. The claim to fame was the availability of 2TB of flash in a palm-sized enclosure with a USB 3.1 Gen...
50 by Ganesh T S on 2/22/2016StarTech Standalone Hard Drive Eraser And USB 3.0 Dock Capsule Review
When StarTech.com first offered up their USB 3.0 Standalone Eraser Dock for review, it took me a little while to really figure what it was for. The name is...
38 by Billy Tallis on 2/16/2016G-Technology Demonstrates G-SPEED Shuttle XL Thunderbolt 2 DAS at CES
As part of every CES trip, I make it a point to visit G-Technology and see what they are introducing into the DAS (direct attached storage) market. This year...
5 by Ganesh T S on 1/17/2016SanDisk Updates DAS Lineup at CES
Billy and I met with SanDisk at their CES 2016 suite. While Billy talked to them about their internal SSD efforts, I checked out the updates to their direct-attached...
2 by Ganesh T S on 1/12/2016Seagate Updates DAS Portfolio at CES 2016
Seagate has announced four new DAS (direct attached storage) products at CES 2016. Three of them target the premium / luxury market under the LaCie brand name. Seagate Backup Plus...
12 by Ganesh T S on 1/5/2016SanDisk Extreme 500 Portable SSD Capsule Review
The last few years have seen rapid advancements in flash technology and the rise of USB 3.0 as an ubiquitous high-speed interface on computers. These have led to the...
22 by Ganesh T S on 12/11/2015QNAP's TVS-871T - A 10G NAS with Thunderbolt 2
QNAP operates in SMB / SME NAS space and differentiates itself by providing consumers with plenty of choices when it comes to the hardware platform. Over the last year...
2 by Ganesh T S on 9/22/2015StarTech.com 8-bay USB 3.0 / eSATA Removable Hard Drive Enclosure Review
Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices have become quite popular over the last five years or so, but Direct Attached Storage (DAS) units were the go-to devices for consumers looking...
21 by Ganesh T S on 8/11/2015Seagate Backup Plus Portable 4TB USB 3.0 Drive Review
The rise in popularity of USB 3.0 has enabled a large number of high-speed bus-powered storage devices. While flash drives and external SSDs can take advantage of the high-speed...
47 by Ganesh T S on 8/4/2015StarTech.com Updates DAS Lineup with Thunderbolt 2 and USB 3.0 Multi-Bay Enclosures
StarTech.com specializes in gadgets performing niche, yet handy functions. We have reviewed a few of their products such as the USB 3.0 to SATA IDE HDD docking station and...
4 by Ganesh T S on 2/28/2015Samsung Portable SSD T1 Review
The last few years have seen rapid advancements in flash technology and the rise of USB 3.0 as an ubiquitous high-speed interface on computers. These have led to the...
69 by Ganesh T S on 1/20/2015Promise Pegasus2 M4 (4x1TB) Thunderbolt 2 DAS Review
Typically multi-bay external storage devices tend to utilize 3.5" drives due to the lower cost and higher capacities. The downside, however, is that 3.5" drives are physically larger and...
39 by Kristian Vättö on 9/12/2014