For two decades, the SSD-versus-HDD conversation ended the same way: flash wins on performance, disk wins on price per terabyte, and the size of that price gap settled the argument in favor of bulk storage. As storage technology has matured and AI has taken over, that framing is clearly out of date. The largest data
The KIOXIA CM9-R is the first enterprise SSD family built on eighth-generation BiCS FLASH, and the 15.36TB E3.S model in our lab is the volume sweet spot of the range: 3,400K random read IOPS and 14,800 MB/s of sequential read from a drive with a 25W typical active rating. Gen5 enterprise drives routinely push into
The Dell Pro 14 Premium is what Dell calls its ultimate commercial notebook: a 14-inch, 2.54-pound magnesium flagship aimed at highly mobile professionals rather than workstation users. It sits above the Dell Pro and Dell Pro Plus lines, and the pitch is craftsmanship and portability with enterprise security and manageability underneath, not raw compute. The
The Solidigm D7-PS1030 is the mid-endurance arm of the company’s first PCIe 5.0 data center family, pairing the platform it shares with the D7-PS1010 with a 3 DWPD rating and a random write ceiling of up to 800K IOPS, double the 400K of its standard-endurance sibling. The family ranges from 1.6TB to 12.8TB across E3.S
High availability has moved from a data center luxury to a line item in ordinary resiliency planning. Small businesses and edge sites now run point-of-sale, surveillance, and shared storage that cost money every minute they are down, yet the classic answer, a dual-controller enterprise array, is sized and priced for the data center rather than
The BLUETTI Elite 300 is a 3kWh portable power station intended for home backup, RV travel, camping, remote work, and jobs where dependable AC and DC power may not be nearby. Its 3,014.4Wh LiFePO₄ battery places it above the smaller units mainly used for phones, laptops, and campsite lighting, providing enough stored energy to power
The MSI XpertStation WS300 is built on NVIDIA’s newest DGX Station architecture, the most capable generation yet, placing a full GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra node beside your desk. The headline number is 20 petaFLOPS of FP4 compute, delivered by a single Blackwell Ultra GPU tied to a 72-core Grace CPU over a 900GB/s NVLink-C2C link.
The Dell Pro Precision 5 16s AMD brings the Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 475 into Dell’s larger 16-inch mobile workstation chassis, pairing 12 cores and 24 threads with Radeon 890M graphics and a 60 TOPS NPU. Our review unit adds 64GB of LPDDR5x memory, a 1 TB PCIe Gen4 SSD, and a 2560 x
Ubiquiti continues to expand its UniFi power ecosystem with the UPS 2U Pro, a higher-capacity rackmount UPS designed for larger network racks, storage systems, and other infrastructure that needs centralized power protection and management. Following the company’s initial entry into the UPS market with the UPS Tower and UPS 2U, the new Pro model builds
The HP EliteBook X G2i is HP’s premium 14-inch business notebook, and the company is not shy about the AI branding: the formal model name is the EliteBook X G2i 14-inch Notebook Next Gen AI PC. Our review unit runs Intel’s Core Ultra 7 366H, a Series 3 Panther Lake part with 16 cores and
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