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- Graphics Cards
RTX 5090 – Has A New Driver Improved Performance & The 1% Lows?
When the RTX 5090 reviews were released, we along with others found performance to be strong, but it seemed to be lacking in the 1% lows, and it’s something that I wanted to investigate further into, from generation to generation, we saw some a decent uplift. Value aside, I felt…
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Intel Arc GPU Graphics Drivers 101.6449 WHQL Released
Intel has released a new WHQL graphics driver package, version 101.6449, focused on providing day-one support for their latest Core processors, codenamed Twin Lake, Raptor Lake-H Refresh, and Raptor Lake-U Refresh. This includes the new Intel Core Ultra Series 1 and Series 2 with built-in Arc GPUs. The driver also…
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Seagate Gaming FireCuda 2TB Gaming Hard Drive Review
Seagate Gaming recently refreshed and released their new FireCuda Hard Drives and FireCuda Gaming Hub! The Gaming Hard Drive is what I have in the office at the moment, which comes in 1TB, 2TB and 5TB variants. However, if you wanted to super-size that, the Gaming Hub offers 8TB and…
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Toshiba Announces 18TB MG09 HDD
Toshiba is preparing to release their new HDD models, which will be their first with “energy-assisted magnetic recording”. The new MG09 Series of drives employ their 3rd generation 9-disk helium-sealed design, allowing a staggering 2TB per disk in the stack. The end result is a “humble” 3.5″ HDD that can…
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- News
TerraMaster Launches the D2 Clone Hard Drive Duplicator
TerraMaster, a professional brand that specializes in providing innovative storage products including network-attached storage (NAS) devices, has announced the launch of its brand new D2 Clone 2-slot drive cloning and enclosure. The TerraMaster D2 Clone is ideal for professional content creators, businesses, and users that handle large amounts of storage,…
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QNAP Launches High-Speed TS-431X3 Quad-core NAS
QNAP, a leading computing, networking, and storage solution innovator, has today announced the launch of the quad-core 1.7 GHz TS-431X3 NAS. Featuring 10 GbE SFP+ and 2.5 GbE RJ45 connectivity, the TS-431X3 enables businesses to deploy a high-speed network environment to meet data backup, recovery, and virtualized storage needs. QNAP…
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Nvidia DRIVE AGX Orin Platform Revealed
Nvidia has just revealed its new Nvidia Drive AGX Orin. It’s their latest advanced software-defined platform for the autonomous vehicle and robotics markets. We know that their hardware has been featured in products from brands like Tesla and Audi in the past, and we expect this will pave the way…
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Floppy Drive Used To Play Retro Games On A Smart Phone
Floppy Drive Used To Play Retro Games On A Smart Phone I daresay that many of you reading this have never had to encounter the days of gaming on a floppy disk. If so, lucky you. The load times were terrible and it was often all for a game that…
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- Software
Easy Collaboration with Synology’s DSM 6.2 Features
Introduction Synology released the latest version of their NAS operating system, Disk Station Manager, at the end of May. Today, I’m taking a closer look at the file and document collaboration features. DSM 6.2 Advances There aren’t a lot of new things in DSM 6.2, it’s more a “Let’s do…
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ADATA Releases the XPG SX8200 M.2 PCIe Gen3x4 SSD
New PCIe Gen3x4 Drive from ADATA ADATA unveiled their new XPG SX8200 M.2 drive back in CES 2018 earlier this year. Now they are announcing the launch of the compact drive, joining the rest of their XPG gaming storage family. It is ADATA’s fastest consumer SSD to date, boasting 3200MB/s…
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Seagate Announces Exos X14 14TB Helium PMR HDD
Seagate’s First 14TB PMR Drive for Enterprise Seagate is introducing their first 14 TB capacity which does not use shingled magnetic recording like WDC’s HGST HS14 2nd gen. Instead, this drive called the Exos X14 is filled with helium and uses perpendicular magnetic (PMR) platters. It still operates at 7200…
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Backblaze Publishes HDD Reliability Stats for Q2 2017
Cloud back and storage provider Backblaze has published their Q2 2017 statistics of hard drive failure rates. There are 83,151 drives in total in the report, 635 more from their Q1 report which saw the addition of 10,000 drives. The Q2 2017 report covers statistics from April 1, through June…
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- Storage
Toshiba N300 6TB NAS HDD Review
Introduction Toshiba released their new N300 series of hard disk drives designed for use with NAS devices a little while ago, and I’m pleased to have the 6TB capacity version in my lab for a closer look and some benchmarking today. Toshiba is one of the largest growing storage companies at…
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StarTech Releases New Drive Duplicator and Eraser for USB and SATA
Drive duplication and erasing can be done from any system, but having a dedicated hardware device to do so can be a lot more convenient than having to rely on normal software solutions. The new StarTech Drive Duplicator and Eraser does that with both USB and SATA drives directly as well…
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Seagate Announces Release of 12TB Enterprise HDD
Seagate introduced its newest enterprise-class hard disk drive at this weeks OCP summit and with it, they’re further strengthening their position in this market. The new drive provides you with 12TB capacity in a helium-filled 3.5-inch size. When we think of the previous 10TB drives, the increase in capacity might not…
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