In our lab, we tend to get wrapped up in the biggest and fastest solutions. But last week the most basic SSD showed up on the doorstep and caused us to re-think our focus for a few days. The Lexar NQ100 is a SATA SSD that starts at about $30 and tops out at 960GB.
The Lexar NQ100 is a 2.5” SSD that is designed for the most entry-level needs. While not being a high-performance drive, it is immensely better than using hard drives. Users will see a massive gap up in performance, not to mention the NQ100 will use less power and make no noise compared to legacy spinning
The Lexar PLAY is a microSDXC UHS-I card designed for a variety of consumer applications, including supplemental storage on new smartphones, tablets, and the Nintendo Switch. The Lexar PLAY enters an already flooded market of SD cards, so this is more or less a mid-range option for consumers with different branding. Nonetheless, Lexar indicates that
The OWC Envoy Pro FX is a portable NVMe SSD designed for a range of applications, including media storage, Time Machine backups, on-the-go video/image editing, Steam gaming, and more. Though it does fit these use cases well, its beautiful design makes it most ideal for the design-savvy creative professional. The Envoy Pro FX is offered
A few months ago, Crucial came out with the Crucial X6 Portable SSD. This was a nice-looking, Type-C portable drive that worked just fine in our tests, however, it was limited by only a cap of 2TB capacity. Crucial has now released the 4TB Crucial X6 for those that need a bit more space to
Today Samsung released yet another client drive with the Samsung SSD 980. While the name can be a bit confusing as the company typically releases both a PRO and an EVO version of a drive and currently have a 980 PRO. The new 980, sans any follow-up name, is the company’s first DRAM-less client SSD.
The ADATA SE900G is the company’s latest portable SSD. The drive leverages USB 3.2 Gen2x2 for the interface which bumps its performance up to a potential 2GB/s read and write. A big selling point here is that the drive is compatible with just about anything, so if a user has Android, macOS, or Windows, they
Intel has released a new model in its end-user QLC SSD line with the Intel 670p. A step up from the Intel 665p, the new SSD is based on the company’s 144-layer 3D NAND and leverages an NVMe interface. Much like its predecessors, the Intel SSD 670p is a single-sided M.2 form factor and comes
Thin Clients aren’t known for their gaming performance, at least when running a game locally, but compared to the classic consoles such as the Atari, SNES, DOS, N64, etc. Lakka makes hosting a retro-gaming console easy with out-of-the-box support for joypads, LAN multiplayer, and an original PlayStation-Esque GUI. Lakka is a Linux distro built on
The new Ampere-based GPUs from NVIDIA are here and if you’re lucky, you might actually get to buy one. As of this writing in February of 2021, stock of new GPUs is still extremely scarce and isn’t expected to return to normal until at least Q3 of this year. But are you really missing out
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