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Aorus Laptops at Computex 2015
Computex 2015 – I have to be perfectly honest, I did not personally know of Auros before today. But I wished I did as they make some incredible portable systems that don’t leave many wishes open....
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Gigabyte Laptops at Computex 2015
Computex 2015 – Gigabyte might be mostly known for their great motherboards and graphics cards, but they also build systems from SSF to laptops and we stopped by to check out what they brought along...
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ASMedia Demonstrates 750MB/s via USB 3.1
The USB 3.1 era is upon us and ASMedia were the first to become officially authorized by the USB-IF official organization. Up until now, USB 3.1 has been more a gimmick and a sales pitch than a useful...
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SilverStone Introduces the MS08 Mobile RAID Rack
SilverStone has no shortage of add-ons for our systems and they’ve added one more to the list, the MS08 mobile RAID rack. The MS08 allows you to take your RAID setup with you on the go as it is...
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Icy Dock Announces ICYRaid MB662U3-2S USB 3.0 RAID Enclosure
Icy Dock announced the ICYRaid MB662U3-2S USB 3.0 drive enclosure that comes with built-in hardware RAID and thereby allows you to take your setup with you on the road where ever you go. When taking...
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WD Purple 6TB Surveillance Hard Drive RAID Review
Introduction We have already had the pleasure to see how WD’s 6TB Purple surveillance hard disk performed in our previous review, but WD was kind enough to provide us with two of these drives and...
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Icy Dock Announces ToughArmor MB992SKR-B Enclosure
We are living in a world where storage capacities grow while the physical size of the drives shrinks more and more, which makes space optimization a vital scenario for a lot of people and companies....
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HP Reveals 9GB/s Capable Z Turbo Drive Quad Pro PCIe Storage Solution
HP’s Z Turbo Drive G2 was an impressive storage solution in itself thanks to the use of a proper NVMe drive, but it is no match for the recently revealed HP Z Turbo Drive Quad Pro. The Z Turbo Drive...
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SilverStone Releases DS222 External Dual-Bay RAID Enclosure
RAID setups are great for speed and redundancy and why should that be limited to your internal drives. SilverStone released a new external USB 3.0 chassis with built-in hardware RAID functionality and...
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Seagate Enterprise NAS 6TB HDD Four Disk RAID Review
Introduction We’ve already had the pleasure of a single drive review of Seagate’s Enterprise NAS 6TB HDDs and today it has become time for the RAID review. Thecus provided me with five of these...
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SilverStone Releases SATA and USB 3.1 Add-In Cards
SilverStone has been on a frenzy lately, releasing a lot of new products. Among them are two new PCI-Express add-in cards that could come in very handy and add some modern features or extra...
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Hoverboard Company Backs Down After Rivals Raided At CES 2016
Trends come and go, from the latest phone to the newest console people often buy and then upgrade their technology a few months later. A few years ago the world was caught in a segway craze, with...
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PNY XLR8 CS2211 240GB SSD in 2-Disk RAID Review
Introduction I often read the comment ‘that would be awesome with two SSDs in a RAID setup’ or ‘I would love two of these new SSDs for a RAID setup’ in our comment sections, both on the page itself...
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Seagate NAS 8TB HDD in 4-Disk RAID Review
Introduction Picking the just the right storage drive for your task isn’t always an easy task, there are quite a few options on the market by now when it comes to high-capacity mechanical drives and...
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German Police Raid Hate Content Posters
The internet has many sides. The light side, where people post pictures requesting that people use Pokémon Go lures at hospitals to help those unable to walk around and play the game, to the dark side...
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SilverStone Releases 4-Bay Dual-Thunderbolt 2 RAID Enclosure
While NAS setups are the way most people go for their external storage needs, DAS (Direct Attached Storage) does have its benefits despite not having their own network connection. While they only...
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ASUS Republic of Gamers Announces G701VI Gaming Laptop
ASUS Republic of Gamers announced a new and quite impressive gaming laptop for immersive VR gaming that packs a punch in both the hardware and built-in monitor. The new ASUS ROG G701VI is packed with...
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OWC Announces Redesigned Mercury Elite Pro Dual
OWC specialises in zero-emissions hardware products and tends to unleash storage options for Mac and PC. Recently, the company unveiled the Memory Elite Pro Dual which is RAID solution pairing...
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A Year With NVMe RAID 0 in a Real World Setup
Introduction There are a lot of misconception and some right information out there when it comes to the combination of solid state drives with RAID setups and what better way is there to get to the...
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Sonnet Introduces Fusion R400 RAID USB 3.0 Rackmount Enclosure
Expanding your storage doesn’t have to be hard, and that includes rack-mounted solutions. Sonnet has introduced the R400 4-bay rack mounted RAID enclosure that connects as easy as with the built-in...
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Western Digital RED 6TB 3.5″ NAS HDD Four Disk RAID Review
Introduction We have recently taken a look at the WD RED 6TB hard disk drive designed for NAS usage, and today it is time to see how these drives perform in a 4-disk RAID setup. Western Digital was so...
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Enermax EMK3203 3.5″ Mobile RAID Rack with 2x 2.5″ Drive Bays Review
Introduction Taking a RAID setup on the road can be a tricky thing and one that is destined to fail most of the time, unless you have a dedicated enclosure. When it has to be portable, it also has to...
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OCZ Vector 180 960GB SSDs in RAID Review
Introduction I often read the comment ‘that would be awesome with two 1TB SSDs’ or ‘I would love two of these new SSDs for a RAID setup’ in our comment sections, both here on the page and on Facebook....
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Silicon Power Slim S80 240GB Solid State Drive Review
Introduction Silicon Power has been in the storage business for a long time and I’m glad to finally be able to put one of their drives on the bench and take it for a test run. Today I’m taking a...
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EUROCOM Pushes the Boundaries of Mobile Workstations with P5 pro and P7 Pro
EUROCOM pushes the boundaries of mobile workstations with their P5 Pro and P7 Pro with extreme performance. The workstations are based on Intel’s Z97 chipset and come with either Intel Code i7-4700 or...
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Acer Announced New Revo One RL85 Mini Entertainment PC
Acer America announced that the Acer Revo One RL85 now is available in the United States. The Windows 8.1 PC offers a lot of power in a small and stylish form factor for enjoying movies, TV programs,...
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Gigabyte GA-6LASL, the New £99 Server Board
When you look around for a server motherboard with multiple onboard LAN connections and support for Intel’s E3-Xeon V3 CPUs, you won’t find anything that could be considered cheap. That is up until...
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OCZ Vector 180 480GB in Four-Disk RAID Review
Introduction We’ve recently taken a look at how two OCZ Vector 180 960GB drives would perform in a RAID setup and to no one’s surprise, they were amazing. So how can we kick this up a notch? Easy, we...
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WD RED 2.5-Inch 1TB in Four-Disk RAID Review
Introduction Western Digital launched their WD RED line quite a while ago, and it’s been a successful one. We’ve previously had a look at how the 2.5-inch version with 1TB capacity performs as a...
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ZOTAC Announced New ZBOX R-Series Mini-PCs
ZOTAC has no shortage of available mini-PCs and the amount available has just grown two new models in the R-Series. The new ZBOX RI323 and ZBOX RI531 barebones are packed with more extension abilities...
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SilverStone Presents a Range of Add-in Cards @ Computex 2015
Computex 2015 – When passing through exhibitor booths, it’s a pleasant change to see a different line of products from what the company is famous for. SilverStone, for example, is widely known for its...
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Enermax Displays Internal and External Storage Solutions at Computex 2015
Computex 2015 – When you mention Enermax, most people think of cooling as the first thing. But the company produces a lot more than just fans and we’ve swung by their booth at Computex to check out...
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HighPoint Releases SSD7101 NVMe RAID SSD
HighPoint is well known for their RocketStor and Thunderbolt Enclosures, but also their RocketRAID series. Recently the company started their NVMe solutions with the RocketRAID 3800 HBA, but this new...
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HighPoint Announces SSD7101A-1 NVMe RAID Controller Availability
HighPoint has announced that they’re now shipping the SSD7101A-1 NVMe RAID controller which means that you’ll be able to get one for your system. The SSD7101A-1 is probably the fastest NVMe RAID...
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Alphacool Introduces HDX-5 M.2 RAID Card with Heatsink
Alphacool introduced the HDX-5 which is a RAID controller card for M.2 and SATA3 drives, complete with a large heatsink in a PCIe add-in card form factor. Dual SATA Connectivity and RAID Alphacool’s...
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HighPoint Announces RocketStor 6628 with Thunderbolt 3
HighPoint had a lot of success with their first generation Thunderbolt 3 enclosures, and now the company is back with the second generation. The two new devices are the RocketStor 6628A and the...
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AMD Launches Threadripper NVMe RAID Support
It’s a week later than anticipated, but AMD finally launched NVMe RAID support for its Threadripper processors. The new update enables RAID 0, 1, and 10 support for up to 10 NVMe SSDs connected to the...
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Toshiba AL14SX 15000RPM SAS eHDD RAID Review
Due to circumstances that happened during my review of the Toshiba AL14SX SAS HDD, I ended up with two drives in my office. So what’s more obvious than testing the scalability of these drives in a...
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HighPoint rSSD7101 NVMe Drive Now Available With up to 8TB
HighPoint continues to expand their impressive line of NVMe storage solution and this time it is the rSSD7101 series that gets an upgrade. These stand-alone RAID solutions can be easily installed into...
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HighPoint RocketRAID 2840A 16-Channel HBA Now Available
HighPoint has announced the availability of the industry’s most affordable 16-Channel SAS RAID controller to date, the RocketRAID 2840A. The new HBA comes with an MSRP of just $249.00 while being...
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MSI Rolls Out BIOS Update for CPU-Attached RAID Support
Now Faster Than Ever MSI has released a new BIOS update enabling CPU-attached RAID support on their latest boards. That includes not just mainstream desktop Z370-chipset boards, but HEDT X299...
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Intel Optane SSD 800P M.2 PCIe SSD RAID Review
Introduction After having a look at the Intel Optane SSD 800p with 58GB and 118GB capacity individually, it is time to have a look at how well the series performs in a RAID setup. After all, Intel...
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LaCie Rugged RAID Pro 4TB Portable HDD Review
Introduction LaCie Rugged RAID Pro 4TB Portable HDD I’ve had the pleasure to review several of LaCie‘s Rugged-series drives in the past, and it’s always been a pleasure. I have no doubt that I’ll have...
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QNAP Launches the TR-004 4-Bay RAID DAS Enlosure
Simple Storage Expansion Solution QNAP has a new 4-bay Direct Attached Storage (DAS) box they are calling the TR-004. This uses UBS 3.1 Gen.1 and supports up to four 3.5-inch SATA drives inside. As...
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HighPoint Launches Low-Profile, Bootable NVMe RAID Controller
HighPoint has announced the launch of its third generation SSD7202 NVMe RAID controller – the industry’s first ultra-compact, low-profile, bootable NVMe RAID solution for Windows and Linux platforms....
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TerraMaster Reveal the D5-300 RAID 5 Storage
TerraMaster is one of my favourite storage brands, as they offer a great range of home, businesses and enterprises solutions but also seem to keep things clean and simple. We’ve actually reviewed one...
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TerraMaster Launches D16 Thunderbolt 3 Storage Tower
TerraMaster has announced the launch of its new D16 Thunderbolt 3 16-bay professional storage solution. The TerraMaster D16 Thunderbolt 3 is the world’s most compact 16-bay tower storage. It uses the...
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TerraMaster Unveils 5-Bay D5-300C RAID Storage Device
TerraMaster has announced the launch of its new D5-300C 5-bay RAID storage designed for small office and home office setups. It features a 2+3 RAID feature that offers better storage configuration...
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QNAP Releases New TS-364 3-bay RAID 5 2.5GbE NAS
QNAP has announced the launch of its new 3-bay RAID 5 2.5 GbE TS-364 NAS with M.2 PCIe Gen3 NVMe SSD slots and 2.5 GbE connectivity, providing optimized performance for both in-home and office...
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Upgrading My Plex Server With a new TerraMaster NAS and Seagate IronWolf Pro...
It’s been a while now, but earlier this year we had three storms pretty much back to back. The end result of this was a damaged roof tile, some blown-over garden furniture, and my NAS died. The NAS...
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