HP’s Z2 G8 Tower is an entry-level workstation desktop based on Intel’s “Rocket Lake” Core and Xeon processors. It supports a single CPU, two GPUs, 128GB of memory, two M.2 PCIe SSDs (including one Gen4), and one 2.5-inch and two 3.5-inch drives. It has excellent performance potential for content creation, 3D modeling, and is also

The Chia surge wiped out the retail supply chain for hard drives. Thankfully that has passed and prices have come back. On the SSD side though, the part often used for plotting Chia, there’s been increased interest in endurance specs. The creation of a Chia plot is extremely write intensive using the standard plotter, though

As the work from home and abroad markets continue to grow, so does the amount of users turning to notebooks as their primary computers. While in a normal desk setting a traditional monitor makes sense, for someone constantly traveling, something portable may make more sense. In comes the new Dell 14 Portable Monitor (C1422H), which

Earlier this year, Corsair released the MP600 Pro, their leading high-performance SSD at the time. It sat alongside the MP600 Core, which is an entry-SSD that uses QLC NAND. Now, just a few months later, Corsair is back with an even better enthusiast SSD offering. The MP600 Pro XT takes SSD performance up a notch,

The OWC Envoy Pro SX is another in OWC’s lengthy line of portable NVMe M.2 SSDs. Due to its speedy interface (support for both Thunderbolt 3 and USB4), this bus-powered mobile drive is ideal for a range of different use cases, including media storage, general backups, and on-set editing. The Envoy Pro SX also can

The SecureData SecureDrive KP USB is a unique solution to keeping sensitive data safe. The main allure of this drive is hardware-based encryption. The drives contents will not appear in your operating system until you have unlocked the hardware encryption with the physical keypad. You can use the keypad to enter a user-defined PIN number

Dell’s Precision 7560 is its most powerful 15.6-inch mobile workstation. This model’s component loadout includes Intel’s 11th generation Xeon and Core processors, NVIDIA workstation-grade GPUs up to the 16GB RTX A5000, up to 128GB of ECC memory, and space for three NVMe drives. Its top screen option sports a UHD (3840×2160) resolution and a 100%

SK hynix brought their first end-user SSD to the US market about a year ago. The Gold P31 offered one of the best performance to cost ratios we had seen. As such, it has been our go-to recommendation for the mainstream SSD category for the last year. The only thing is, the drive only came

Samsung expanded their popular line of microSD cards today, launching the Samsung PRO Plus microSD card, alongside the more mainstream EVO Plus microSD card. Both come in a variety of capacities topping out at 512GB. The highlight with this refresh though is definitely performance. The new cards support UHS-I (DDR200) which means the new microSD