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Client Accessories  ◇  Consumer

In The Lab: Solving Problems with a 3D Printer

This article isn’t our standard review article, instead, this piece explores the fun (and practical?) side of 3D printing and showcases a few prints that anyone can do for their homelab. Let me preface by saying that we don’t own any of the models that we printed. All the models we printed can be found

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme G4 Exterior
Consumer  ◇  Workstation

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme G4 Review

A high-end 16-inch business laptop, the ThinkPad X1 Extreme G4 is the non-workstation version of the ThinkPad P1 G4. Unless you need that model’s Xeon CPU, ECC memory, Nvidia RTX A-class workstation graphics, or ISV certifications, the ThinkPad X1 Extreme G4 is a more economical option and still offers a high level of performance.

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Consumer  ◇  Portable Storage

OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini SSD Review (1TB)

The OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini SSD is the newest portable storage device from OWC. With its compact footprint, lightweight design, and aircraft-grade aluminum, the Elite Pro mini SSD is designed to go anywhere. While being universally compatible with Macs, PCs, iPads, Chromebooks, and Android tablets, the BUS-powered drive is rated for up to 542MB/s

Client Software  ◇  Consumer

In The Lab: 6-port $3,000 pfSense Box

We recently posted a video on the Lenovo ThinkEdge SE50 on our TikTok account that went over swimmingly well. We received numerous comments revolving around using the SE50 as a pfSense router. The notion is widely unpractical, given the cost of the SE50 (it starts around $2500 US). But the system does have a lot

Client Accessories  ◇  Consumer

Yottamaster M.2 SSD Cloner Review

Yottamaster recently sent us their newest standalone M.2 NVMe cloner to play with. The Yottamaster cloning device is an interesting product as it is able to externally clone an M.2 NVMe SSD without being connected to a PC. The drive cloner comes in handy especially if data is needed to be cloned quickly with speeds

Lenovo ThinkPad P1 G4 Open Bottom Panel
Consumer  ◇  Workstation

Lenovo ThinkPad P1 G4 Review

The Lenovo ThinkPad P1 G4 is a 16-inch mobile workstation that balances portability with performance. Though not a top-performing workstation like the ThinkPad P15, it’s more than up to demanding tasks with up to an eight-core CPU, 64GB of RAM, two SSDs, and a 16GB Nvidia RTX A5000 GPU. Everything about this laptop is productive,

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Consumer  ◇  Portable Storage

Silicon Power Armor A66 Review

Silicon Power has recently sent us their new all-around tough portable HDD for review. The Silicon Power A66 comes in multiple different capacities: 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, and even 5TB. The A66 is designed for tough conditions in the field with a drop rating of 1.22 meters and an IPX4 water-resistant rating.

Client Accessories  ◇  Consumer

ORICO M2L2 and M2V01-C4 SSD Enclosures

With the increasing popularity of NVMe drives, more and more consumers are likely to have old NVMe drives that are still functional, but maybe not the hot new thing, just lying around. These are great for various purposes, such as high-performance scratch space or even making a spare external to use as a backup. For

Supermicro AS-5014A-TT Insides
Consumer  ◇  Workstation

Supermicro A+ SuperWorkstation 5014A-TT Review

Supermicro’s A+ SuperWorkstation 5014A-TT (AS-5014A-TT) is a high-end desktop workstation. It can sport up to 64 processing cores thanks to its single AMD Threadripper Pro CPU, something no single-CPU Intel workstation can do. It also supports up to four double-wide GPUs, 2TB of memory, and eight internal storage drives. For creative professionals, data scientists, and

wd red sn700 in qnap
Client SSD  ◇  Consumer

WD Red SN700 4TB Review

Western Digital has recently sent the all-new WD Red SN700 for us to review. This new drive was recently added to their line-up and was designed for high endurance, caching driving that helps accelerate NAS performance. WD built this drive with the idea in mind to support NAS environments 24/7 with applications always running. This