The Samsung 870 EVO is the latest entry into the company’s successful line of consumer SSDs. The EVO line has been a highly successful endeavor for the company, as the line finds the perfect balance between performance and price while offering Samsung’s pedigree in reliability. These mid-range consumer drives are designed for all kinds of

With this lab effort, we wanted to create a tiny but powerful 3-node Proxmox VE 6.3 cluster. We’ve been impressed by the Lenovo Nano line of PCs, so we snagged three more for this experiment.  Using Lenovo ThinkCentre m90n’s, we can demonstrate the amount of computational power and storage performance, that can be fit in

The EnGenius Cloud line is the company’s newest generation of network devices that can be easily managed online via their web-based and mobile GUI, which is highlighted by its comprehensive, yet easy-to-use, range of features. One of the first models from this line is the ECS2512FP, a multi-Gigabit switch equipped with eight 100Mbps/1Gbps/2.5Gbps ports, all

Icy Dock is answering an interesting question: What do you do if you want to use an M.2 SSD that is easily removable from the system? The Icy Dock ToughArmor MB840M2P-B is a PCIe card with a removable SSD sled. The solution is in two parts, a card that installs in a PCIe slot and

Memory has always been the one type of hardware that delivered on the promise of massive speeds. There are a few drawbacks: it is expensive, it is limited in capacity, and it isn’t persistent (in order to maintain the data, memory needs to be powered on, which is further problematic as memory needs a periodic

Lenovo added another workstation to its ThinkStation family with the introduction of the Lenovo ThinkStation P620 last year. This isn’t just another new weapon in the arsenal of workstations the company rolls out, the P620 was the first professional workstation powered by AMD’s brand-new Ryzen Threadripper PRO processor. This AMD CPU brings 64 cores to

Back in August of 2019 at Gamescom in Cologne, WD announced its WD_Black for Gaming. This included HDDs for games, a game dock, and a portable SSD. In fact, we reviewed the WD_BLACK P50 Game Drive SSD a little over a year ago. In the waning months of 2020, WD expanded the line again adding

The Supermicro 1023US-TR4 is a 1U server designed for organizations looking for a high-end solution in environments that can benefit from dense compute power like virtualization and cloud computing. The 1024US-TR4 comes equipped with an H11DSU-iN motherboard, which features dual-socket support for AMD EPYC series processors and up to 8TB Registered ECC DDR4 3200MHz SDRAM

The MSI Cubi 5 10M is an energy-efficient, yet rather powerful mini-desktop. The MSI Cubi 5 10M supports a 10th Gen Intel U-Processor (up to i7), 2x DDR4 2666MHz SO-DIMMs (up to 64GB), WiFi 6 using the Intel Wireless AC 9462 or Intel Wireless AX201, and a maximum of 1 x M.2 SSD and 1