Lexar has continued to expand its SSD offerings, rolling out the Lexar NM620 SSD. The NM620 is an M.2 SSD that leverages the PCIe Gen3 interface. The drive is billed as being an intensive drive aimed at design, video editing, and gaming. Really though, anything that’s Gen3 these days should be considered entry or mainstream

The Synology NAS and their underlying OS, DiskStation Manager (DSM), comes with several interesting packages (think apps) that can be downloaded from the Package Center for free. These packages run the gamut of multimedia for the casual user to virtualization and containers for small to medium businesses. Today we are going to look at, what

The NETGEAR WAX214 is a dual-band wireless access point (WAP) and the newest addition to the company’s Business Essentials line of affordable and easy-to-deploy networking devices. More specifically, the WAX214 is a WiFi 6 solution for smaller businesses looking to offer their customers high-performance wireless internet access isolated from their own internal network. The WAX214

The Intel NUC 11 family is broken into several categories: Enthusiast (Phantom Canyon), Performance (Panther Canyon), Pro (Tiger Canyon), and Compute Element (Elk Bay). Each one of these is unique and built for a different purpose. For example, the Pro is designed for edge computing and office use and comes in a small square case.

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