Samsung’s PM853T and 845DC EVO have helped dispel the stigma surrounding 3-bit MLC (TLC) NAND in the datacenter. 3-bit MLC has endurance limitations, but with the correct engineering and firmware expertise, it is fully capable of addressing read-centric workloads in...
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In what’s already being dubbed ‘bend gate’, owners of Apple’s new iPhone 6 Plus are reporting that their new smartphones are being bent out of shape – just from being carried in their pockets. Apple has yet to respond to...
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Premium mechanical keyboards have surged in popularity in the last few years as gamers and even casual users rediscover the joys of using a keyboard with the precision and feel afforded by mechanical key switches. The Cooler Master NovaTouch TKL...
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Between the release of the latest GeForce GTX980/970 cards which currently offer the best price/performance ratio and several price drops announced by NVIDIA for their previous generation cards I’m pretty certain that most of you will be thinking about a...
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One of my favorite platforms over the past two years has been the X79. The X79 chipset was a new workstation platform designed to replace Gulftown. At launch the new processor was called Sandy Bridge-E and shared a variety of...
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All hail Corsair Gaming!, ahw yea .. you better get used to the naming. Corsair Gaming is replacing Vengeance. Corsair Gaming is a new division within Corsair that reflects their movement from being labeled as pure ‘PC Hardware manufacturer’ towards...
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Synology today announced the new DiskStation DS415+, a powerful 4-bay NAS server designed to centralise data storage, backup, and file sharing for small and medium-sized businesses, as well as enthusiast home users. Link
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We’re excited to announce that you can now upload files up to 10 GB from desktop, mobile and the web! Our goal with OneDrive is to provide a single place for all your files, and we don’t want you to...
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From its very beginning, Synology has been striving to deliver high quality and refined applications, based on real-life situations and user feedback. By providing invaluable advantages to your daily experience, DSM saves you time and money – so you can...
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With the availability of Intel’s Xeon E5-2600 v3 family of processors, a variety of server vendors are launching compute platforms that take advantage of the performance increases of the new Xeon architecture. The DL360 Gen9 is the new mainstream 1U...
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To celebrate the launch of the brand-new Radeon R9 285, HEXUS has teamed up with Sapphire and AMD to give you the chance to win one of two graphics cards based on the Tonga GPU. For our first prize, we...
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Yesterday NVIDIA released what just might turn out to be their best-selling graphics card (price/performance/power consumption/noise levels) since the quite remarkable GeForce 8800GTX many years ago. Unfortunately we can’t give one of those “bad boys” away just yet but we...
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Is there always a link between technical perfection, emotional desirability, and the choices we make in real life? As I have first proposed the concept of practical consideration versus emotional desirability in the SilverStone Strider Essential Gold ST70F-ESG 700W report...
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Last week we mentioned the latest game by Bungie called Destiny which finally hit consoles after a somewhat long beta period but we failed to mention that the PC version (if it ever comes to fruition) is not available yet....
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NVIDIA tends to dominate the field when it comes to graphics processing power, leaving AMD to reduce prices across their product line to remain competitive. Recently the AMD Radeon R9 290X became AMD’s flagship graphics card, and although powerful, it...
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