LaCie has been a fixture in our lab for well over a decade. From the 8big Rack Thunderbolt 2 we covered in 2014 through the many generations of 5big, 6big, 8big, and Rugged devices that have followed, the formula has been consistent: premium Neil Poulton-designed enclosures, Seagate drives inside, Mac-centric polish, a solid warranty, and a
Seagate’s FireCuda X Vault is the gaming-flavored half of a two-drive launch that brings bus-powered USB-C to 3.5-inch external hard drives for the first time. Available in 8TB and 20TB capacities starting at $269.99, it runs on a single USB-C cable for both data and power, provided the host port can supply at least 15W.
Seagate’s new One Touch Desktop HDD sidesteps one of the staples of the desktop external drive category: the power brick. The refreshed lineup runs 8TB, 20TB, and 24TB in a 3.5-inch chassis, but instead of a DC input and wall adapter, it draws everything it needs over a single USB-C cable. Seagate bills it as
When we published our story on Oregon State University’s plankton imaging research last November, the headline was the science: AI-accelerated infrastructure aboard research vessels, processing terabytes of ocean data in near real-time before the ship ever reached port. But something else happened quietly in the weeks that followed. Word spread across campus about what a
AMD is once again pushing the boundaries of the high-performance desktop market with the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition, which launches at an MSRP of $899. When we reviewed the Ryzen 9 9950X3D in March 2025, it made a compelling case as the first 16-core X3D processor, with thermal and TDP constraints no longer forcing
Comino recently sent us the latest version of the Comino Grando for review, configured with eight NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell cards, each with 96GB of VRAM, for a total of 768GB of GPU memory. We reviewed the Comino back in in 2024, configured with 6x RTX 4090s, offering 144GB of total GPU memory, as
Ubiquiti’s G6 Turret is a 4K PoE camera with a turret design, featuring on-device face and license plate recognition and full UniFi Protect integration, all at a $199 price point. The turret design sets it apart from traditional domes by placing the lens module in a ball-and-socket housing. You can physically adjust the module on
Supermicro’s JumpStart program has established itself as one of the more useful tools in the pre-purchase evaluation toolkit for AI infrastructure. Rather than a scripted demo in a shared environment, JumpStart gives qualified users free, time-boxed, bare-metal access to real production servers via SSH, IPMI, and VNC, enabling them to run workloads on actual hardware.
The Dell PowerEdge R770AP is not a general-purpose server, and that is entirely the point. Where most 2U dual-socket platforms chase flexibility, the R770AP strips it away, trading GPU support, mixed storage options, and raw memory capacity for the highest core density, memory bandwidth, and execution determinism available in Dell’s current Intel lineup. It is
After publishing our article about Microsoft’s opt-in native NVMe feature on Windows Server 2025, we received multiple requests for a direct comparison of storage performance between Windows Server 2025 with native NVMe and a Linux-based server OS. One especially enthusiastic Redditor even offered us beer to do it! Since there were obviously no other reasonable options, we decided to
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