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

Kingston’s Workflow Station and Readers is a dock solution that provides users with an easy way to transfer files from multiple sources at once to a PC or laptop. This type of device is designed mainly for professionals who use multiple different SD cards to transfer their project files. What’s unique about the Kingston dock

The QNAP TS-230 is an entry-level NAS aimed more at home use than business. The NAS is compact, lightweight, quiet, and visually appealing, making it a nice fit in a home office or entertainment center. The main use for this little guy in the home is to store media (music, photos, and videos) on and

The QNAP TS-131K single-bay NAS is compact, sporting a quad-core Alpine AL214 ARM Cortex A15 CPU and 1GB RAM. Personally, I typically glaze over one bay NAS enclosures as single-bay solutions offer absolutely no data redundancy. However, with the low cost ($165 in Feb 2021 for the bare NAS) this upgrade to the TS-131 doubles

Along with the MP600 Core, Corsair has released another PCIe Gen4 SSD with the Corsair MP600 Pro. Being a Pro version, this drive comes with higher performance claims, 7GB/s read, and 6.55GB/s write for the 2TB capacity. The MP600 Pro is an M.2 2280 form factor that fits in most rigs assuming there is room

Last year Samsung released its first PCIe Gen4 SSD for clients with the Samsung 980 Pro. We did a thorough review at the time. The 980 Pro dominated in the VDBench tests we put it through to be the top dog Gen4 against other newly released drives. The only problem was there was a limitation

Rolled out at CES 2021, the XPG GAMMIX S70 is an M.2 SSD aimed at gamers. The drive leverages the PCIe Gen4x4 interface with promises of speeds up to 7.4GB/s read and 6.4GB/s write. Though it leverages the new interface it is backward compatible with Gen3 devices. Aside from gamers, XPG is also looking at