HDPLEX Unveils 2nd Generation H5 Passive PC Chassis
The advent of CPUs with low TDPs (but having enough power to handle HTPC duties) has resulted in passive HTPCs becoming more and more popular. There are a number...
16 by on 9/15/2015
WD Red Pro 6 TB Review - High Performance NAS HDD Gets a Capacity Bump
Despite the increasing affordability of SSDs, hard drives continue to remain the storage medium of choice for applications where capacity and cost factors outweigh performance requirements. Specialty drives have...
62 by on 9/7/2015
Asus RT-AC5300U 802.11ac Router - 4x4 MU-MIMO with Broadcom XStream
Asus announced the RT-AC5300U 802.11ac router using Broadcom's tri-band Wi-Fi chipset at IFA 2015 today. This is meant to be a flagship router with AC5300 speeds (1000 Mbps on...
40 by on 9/2/2015
Asus Announces the VivoStick PC - A Cherry Trail Compute Stick
At IFA 2015, Asus is announcing their first PC in the 'compute stick' form factor, the VivoStick PC. As a recap, the Compute Stick form factor is the x86...
30 by on 9/2/2015
Seagate Announces a Trio of 8TB Drives for Enterprise Applications
Seagate was the first hard drive vendor to launch a cost-effective 8TB hard drive. The Archive HDD v2 (ST8000AS0002) uses Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) to drive up the areal...
14 by on 9/1/2015
Western Digital Updates My Cloud Mirror NAS, Releases My Cloud OS 3
Western Digital markets their NAS lineup under the 'Personal Cloud' category. This is further sub-divided into three markets, the 'Consumer Series' (the MyCloud units), 'Expert Series' (the EX units...
6 by on 9/1/2015
Netgear Launches XS728T 28-port 10-Gigabit Smart Managed Switch
In early 2013, Netgear launched the XS708E (8x 10GBASE-T with 1x shared 10G SFP+) unmanaged switch, the XS712T (12x 10GBASE-T with 2x shared 10G SFP+) smart managed switch and...
11 by on 8/31/2015
Corsair Flash Voyager GS USB 3.0 512GB Flash Drive Capsule Review
The ubiquity of USB 3.0 as a high speed interface for PCs and the increasing affordability of flash memory has led to some very interesting products. USB flash drives...
8 by on 8/31/2015
Blossom Smart Watering Controller Review
Home automation has garnered renewed attention, thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT) revolution. Many vendors targeting this market look to deliver solutions for aspects appealing to a broader...
47 by on 8/28/2015
Intel's Skylake GPU - Analyzing the Media Capabilities
At IDF in San Francisco last week, Intel provided us with lots of insights into Skylake, the microarchitecture behind the 6th generation Core series processors. Skylake marks the introduction...
37 by on 8/26/2015
ECS LIVA x2 Review: A Compact & Fanless Braswell PC
The popularity of the NUC form factor has led to a resurgence in the nettop category. Thankfully, the core computing performance of the new systems have been miles ahead...
30 by on 8/24/2015
Intel Launches New Socketed 5x5 mini-PC Motherboards
Over the last couple of years, the ultra-compact form factor (UCFF) has emerged as one of the bright spots in the troubled PC market. Kickstarted by Intel's NUC (Next...
44 by on 8/24/2015
Western Digital Updates WD Red Pro and WD Black with 5 & 6TB Models
It is that time of the year when Western Digital updates their Red lineup. Launched in 2012, the WD Red drives target network attached storage units with an optimized...
51 by on 8/18/2015
Nixeus NX-VUE24A 144Hz FreeSync Monitor Set to Ship
We briefly covered the launch of the Nixeus NX-VUE24A FreeSync monitor as part of our write-up on AMD's FreeSync demonstrations at Computex 2015. Nixeus today sent news that the...
40 by on 8/14/2015
Advatronix Nimbus 400 File Server Review
Small businesses and power users often need the flexibility offered by a file server when compared to a dedicated NAS. This is where storage servers based on Microsoft's Windows...
18 by on 8/12/2015
StarTech.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 on 8/11/2015
ASRock Rack C2750D4I and U-NAS NSC-800: A DIY File Server
Small businesses and power users often need the flexibility offered by a file server when compared to a dedicated NAS. This is where storage servers based on Microsoft's Windows...
48 by on 8/10/2015
Aleutia Updates R50 and T1 Fanless Industrial PCs with Partial Copper Chassis
Aleutia's fanless industrial PCs have seen deployment in a large number of developing countries as well as other extreme environments, thanks to their rugged nature and low power requirements...
8 by on 8/10/2015
Seagate 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 on 8/4/2015
Strontium Nitro Plus Nano USB 3.0 64GB Flash Drive 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...
21 by on 8/3/2015
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