The Intel Skull Canyon NUC6i7KYK mini-PC Review
The desktop computing market has been subject to severe challenges over the last few years. The ultra-compact form-factor (UCFF) PC market that emerged with the introduction of the Intel...
133 by on 5/23/2016
Seagate Innov8 8TB Bus-Powered External Hard Drive Review
Bus-powered storage devices have traditionally been limited by USB 2.0's power delivery specifications. The low power limit meant that only 2.5" drives (typically with a spindle speed of 5400 RPM...
41 by on 5/19/2016
Intel Releases BIOS Version 0044 for Skylake NUCs
BIOS updates for motherboards and mini-PCs aren't usually important enough to warrant explicit coverage. However, Intel's latest release for the Skylake NUCs (the Core i3 and Core i5 versions...
30 by on 5/17/2016
QNAP 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 on 5/13/2016
Choosing the Right SSD for a Skylake-U System
Our Skylake NUC review had a brief section on the storage subsystem performance. The comments section raised a few questions about the inability of SSDs such as the Samsung...
40 by on 5/9/2016
Comtrend PG-9172 Powerline Adapter Review: G.hn Gets Primed for Retail Push
The battle between HomePlug and HomeGrid to emerge as the de-facto powerline networking standard was quite interesting between 2010 and 2013. However, despite silicon getting demonstrated at various trade...
49 by on 5/3/2016
MSI Cubi 2 Plus vPro Skylake mini-STX PC Review
The desktop PC market has been subject to many challenges over the last few years. However, the miniaturization trend (including the introduction of the ultra-compact form factor - UCFF...
24 by on 4/27/2016
Drobo 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 on 4/25/2016
Compulab fitlet-XA10-LAN Review: A Fanless AMD UCFF PC for Networking Applications
Passively cooled computing systems carry many advantages. Most of these turn out to be very important for industrial and embedded applications. The attention paid by AMD and Intel to...
50 by on 4/19/2016
Thunderbolt 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 on 4/14/2016
SanDisk 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 on 4/11/2016
LaCie 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 on 3/31/2016
Best NASes: Q1 2016
Network-attached storage vendors do not usually follow a regular yearly cadence in updating their offerings. Releases for different market segments are spread throughout the year. That said, thanks to...
26 by on 3/30/2016
USB 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 on 3/18/2016
Intel's Skull Canyon NUC is Official: $650, Shipping In May
Back in January, Intel had provided us with information about the Skull Canyon NUC based on a Skylake H-Series CPU(with Iris Pro Graphics). Today, at GDC 2016, Intel made...
103 by on 3/16/2016
The Intel NUC6i5SYK Skylake UCFF PC Review
The evolution of computing platforms has left the traditional desktop PC market in a precarious state. However, the miniaturization trend has provided some bright spots. Compact PCs have been...
95 by on 3/11/2016
Voyo V3 Review - A Fanless Intel Atom x7-Z8700 (Cherry Trail) mini-PC
Intel transitioned their Bay Trail-T Atom lineup (targeting affordable 2-in-1s, tablets and Compute Stick form factors) to 14nm with the introduction of Cherry Trail-T. The Atom x5 and x7...
69 by on 3/1/2016
Mushkin Impact 256GB and Atom 128GB USB Flash Drives Capsule Review
Flash drives are a dime a dozen these days, and most of them carry uninteresting specifications. In particular, flash drives advertising smaller physical footprints have tended to carry disappointing...
11 by on 2/24/2016
Samsung 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 on 2/22/2016
SanDisk Ultra +Cloud 64GB + 64GB Flash Drive Review
USB flash drives (UFDs) are a dime a dozen in the current market. In order to stand out in the crowd, manufacturers have adopted a two-pronged approach. While one...
23 by on 2/18/2016
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