» Archive for February, 2014

04Feb Samsung 840 EVO 500GB drive and the 830 it’s replacing

The Samsung 840 EVO 500GB drive showed up from that ebay sale I posted a few weeks ago. The plan for this drive is to the upgrade the Samsung 830 256GB SSD that I installed a year and half ago in my Asus Zenbook ux32vd. The Zenbook still does a great job, but I want […]

03Feb Redrock Micro Hero 3 Cobalt Cage Review

I’ve been testing and using the Cobalt Cage for about a month now and it’s quickly become a go to item for most of my daily Hero 3 use. I don’t do a lot of extreme car racing, so the attractiveness of the Cobalt Cage for me is the number of mounting points. Add 3 […]

01Feb USB 3.0 card reader speeds and why it matters

This question came in and I thought it might be helpful if I answer it on the site.  Since USB 3.0 has a max transfer speed of 5 Gbps and USB 2.0 has a max of 480 Mbps, and SD class 10 cards have a minimum speed of 10 Mbps, does it really make any […]