SanDisk’s G-Drive ArmorATD is a portable 2.5-inch hard drive that’s ruggedized for less-than careful use. Though it commands a premium over non-ruggedized drives, it’s still reasonably priced for what it offers, and its performance is as good as you can expect from a 2.5-inch hard drive. Overall, the G-Drive ArmorATD gets our recommendation for economical,
The latest SanDisk Professional G-DRIVE SSD is an ultra-durable portable drive under the newly established SanDisk Professional line, which is built to tough it out in the elements. Though rugged, the G-DRIVE is a relatively small storage device while offering decent transfer rates up to 1.05GB/s in sequential reads. This performance allows users to quickly
The Supermicro SuperBlade systems have been around for quite some time. The popular blade chassis come in a variety of form factors, including 4U, 6U, and 8U. Each size gives customers a different set of choices when ultimately selecting the blades that go inside. In this review, we’re taking a look at the largest Supermicro
Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) has gained popularity for the simplicity of deployment and management. For those in the Hyper-V world, HCI is consumed via Azure Stack HCI. The good news here is that Microsoft has continued to pour features into Azure Stack HCI. Features like support for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) enable a flexible hybrid cloud
Windows is great for a lot of things, there’s a reason it’s the number one operating system in the world. That said, it’s not perfect, especially when it comes to embracing new storage standards. As such, there’s a tremendous opportunity for enterprising companies to develop solutions for Windows shops. As NVMe SSDs continue to dominate
The Kingston XS2000 is a portable solid-state drive that connects via USB Type-C. Small enough to fit in your pocket, this drive demonstrated excellent performance in our testing, nearing Kingston’s 2,000MB/s read and write claims. It even carries a mild IP55 rating for water and dust protection and includes a rubberized sleeve.
The NETGEAR WAX620 is a wall/ceiling mount, dual-band wireless access point engineered for small to medium-sized businesses. More specifically, high traffic and performance environments that need to be securely separated. Additionally, it offers Wireless Mesh technology to create seamless networks across campus.
GRAID Technology launched its first product over the summer, designed to handle modern throughput challenges that have been introduced by NVMe SSDs. GRAID SupremeRAID, so the claim goes, is “the world’s first NVMe RAID card to deliver 100% available SSD performance.” The little bit of marketing aside, GRAID does hit at a very real issue,
The Seagate IronWolf 525 is the company’s newest NVMe NAS SSD to hit the market. Offering fast access to data in low latency, multi-user environments, the IronWolf 525 is ideal for commercial and entry-level Enterprise NAS solutions as well as creative professionals with high-performance needs. Seagate’s new NAS drive is available in three capacities (500GB,
Though portable solid-state drives are becoming more popular and can deliver excellent performance, they still can’t beat the portability and convenience of a USB flash drive. Kingston’s new DataTraveler Max pushes flash-drive performance limits with its USB 3.2 Gen 2 interface for a claimed 1,000MB/s read and 900MB/s write. Though the drive lacks encryption and
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