PCIe Gen4 devices were enabled through the release of newer AMD Ryzen motherboards. We are still seeing PCIe Gen4 storage trickling out, with more and more coming out on the client side of things. Today we see our third review on the client side with the TEAMGROUP T-FORCE CARDEA Ceramic C440 M.2 SSD.

We in the IT community often obsess over show horses—the fastest and/or most powerful devices or systems—because we love those big and small numbers they showcase. The reality, however, is that most users simply don’t need the ostentatious power of show horses. They need workhorses, systems that can serve up real workloads on a day-to-day

With most notebooks adopting and centralizing around the USB-C standard, one of the nice trends to hit the market is the explosion of universal USB-C docking solutions. These are great as they don’t require the same vendor tie-in as past docking systems did, although they can still be a bit on the bulky side. Many

The DapuStor Haishen3 is the company’s NVMe enterprise SSD. The line comes in two models, the DapuStor H3200 SSD (reviewed here) and the DapuStor H3100 SSD we are reviewing today. Both of the two drive types have the same use cases that include: server & storage systems, data centers, video surveillance, professional photography, streaming, edge

Seagate has expanded its external storage for gaming with the Seagate Xbox Game Drive CyberPunk 2077 Special Edition. External drives for Xbox (formatted and ready to work out of the box with Xbox game consoles) from Seagate aren’t exactly new, we first covered the announcement in 2015. However, the company has been able to bump

The Asustor AS7110T is a SMB virtualization and storage NAS solution highlighted by its Intel Xeon 9th generation Quad-Core CPU. With its 10 drive-bays and highly customizable build, the AS7110T offers a range of different options for budgets of all kinds. As such, it can easily scale as your business grows for a total of

Working from home is becoming the next big thing, whether we want it to or not. The Covid-19 pandemic is forcing more and more of us to work part- or full-time from our house. Luckily a big swath of modern jobs can be done from home, unluckily modern notebooks lack connectivity. Plugable is continuing to

VMware recently added NVMe over Fabric (NVMe-oF) as a storage network protocol option in vSphere 7.0. The fact that the fastest shared-storage solution is now able to be used by the world’s most popular virtualization software is a game changer, opening a whole new set of use cases for a virtualized data center. This also

The Eaton 5SC500 UPS is part of the company’s 5SC line of smaller tower form factor UPS. While small is relative with tech gear, the 5SC500 can fit on a desk or under it making a good backup for smaller gear such as notebook/PCs and NAS, or a specific use case pointed out by Eaton