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Consumer  ◇  HDD

WD Black 4TB Review (WD4001FAEX)

The 4TB WD Black is Western Digital’s top-capacity and top-performing 7,200 RPM client system hard drive. The standard 3.5" form factor is designed to provide bulk storage for desktop use, while still offering top class performance. WD is using their standard five platter design for the 4TB Black (note: Caviar has been dropped from the

Client SSD  ◇  Consumer

OWC Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD Review

The OWC Mercury Accelsior is a PCIe SSD designed for the enthusiast and creative professional market who crave the fastest storage available within a client workstation. OWC uses a unique design, essentially leveraging a PCIe PCB with two host slots for their gumstick-shaped SSDs and a management controller that ties the drives together. The architecture

Client Accessories  ◇  Consumer

Icy Dock ToughArmor MB994IPO-3SB Review (3-in-1 with Optical)

The ToughArmor MB994IPO-3SB is Icy Dock’s newest full metal dual bay 2.5” SAS/SATA hard drive/SSD mobile rack cage built with a Slim Optical Disk Drive (ODD) slot for use in a single 5.25” device bay, specifically designed for a small form factor system or server such as IPC, HTPC, NAS, Home Servers and All-In-One computers.

Consumer  ◇  Portable Storage

LaCie P’9223 Slim SSD Review

LaCie and beautiful design intuitively go together, thanks to years of LaCie regularly pumping out great looking storage devices. The LaCie P’9223 Slim SSD drive is no different, sporting a classic aluminum body and support for USB 3.0. The appearance and build of the P’9223 rightfully deserves the Porsche label, as it has both the

Consumer  ◇  Desktop Storage (External)

Toshiba Canvio Personal Cloud Hard Drive Review

The Toshiba Canvio Personal Cloud hard drive is a personal cloud server that doesn’t require a monthly subscription and/or usage fees. It’s an ideal solution for storing, sharing, and streaming your music, pictures, videos, and files between your desktop computers, laptops, tablets and or smartphones across your personal cloud. Unlike typical Cloud solutions, your content is stored on your own

Client Accessories  ◇  Consumer

Icy Dock ToughArmor MB996SP-6SB 6-in-1 Adaptor Review

Icy Dock’s ToughArmor MB996SP-6SB 6 x 2.5″ SATA HDD Hot Swap Rack is a 6-in-1 adaptor that slots up to 6 9.5mm drives into a single 5.25″ desktop computer bay. Creative professionals and high-performance enthusiasts are often looking for the best performance available in local dense storage arrays, with SSDs being a popular option for

Client Accessories  ◇  Consumer

Icy Dock Blizzard 3.5″ Hard Drive Enclosure Review

The Icy Dock MB080U3S-1SB Blizzard is an easy to use tool-less 3.5″ external enclosure that is designed for professional media, IT users and computer enthusiast, who require max cooling performance for their external devices. The enclosure supports an 80mm fan that offers three settings of Low, High and Auto, to go along with a direct

Consumer  ◇  Portable Storage

Kingston Secure USB Flash Drives with ESET Review

Kingston’s DataTraveler 4000 and DataTraveler Vault Privacy USB flash drives are now being offered with enhanced security functionality as part of a new partnership announced today between Kingston, ESET, and ClevX. Securely managing portable digital storage is one of the growing challenges for organizations rolling out infrastructure to support mobile devices and workers while maintaining

Consumer  ◇  NAS

Synology DS1512+ NAS Review

The Synology DS1512+ is a 5-bay NAS designed for small business use that features a dual core 2.13GHz processor, 1GB of RAM and Synology’s DiskStation Manager (DSM) software. Synology sells their NAS units without disks, so users purchase the enclosure and add any combination of 2.5″ or 3.5″ drives they wish. While the entry-NAS market