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GIGABYTE Unveils AORUS PCIe 4.0 Quadro NVMe AIC
With AMD‘s latest generation processors, we got PCIe Gen.4 and with it, a lot more bandwidth. Up until now, there hasn’t been a whole lot which could take advantage of that, but now there is one more thing which can. GIGABYTE AUROS’ new PCIe 4.0 add-in card can hold up…
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HighPoint RocketRAID 2840A 16-Channel HBA Now Available
HighPoint has announced the availability of the industry’s most affordable 16-Channel SAS RAID controller to date, the RocketRAID 2840A. The new HBA comes with an MSRP of just $249.00 while being low-profile and offering 16 drive channels. The RocketRAID 2840A builds on the success of the market-proven RocketRAID…
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HighPoint rSSD7101 NVMe Drive Now Available With up to 8TB
HighPoint continues to expand their impressive line of NVMe storage solution and this time it is the rSSD7101 series that gets an upgrade. These stand-alone RAID solutions can be easily installed into any compact workstation or server which has a free PCIe slot. And with it, you get 20 times…
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Synology Releases M2D17 Dual M.2 SSD PCIe Caching Card
Those who wish to get an extra level of performance in their NAS will usually opt for solid state drives to do so. But that does, for the most part, have the downside of occupying two or more of your drive bays with SSDs. That decreases the available drive bays for…
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SilverStone Announces ECP01 Dual Output Power Adapter Card
SilverStone is one of those companies that has a knack for creating useful devices that we previously weren’t aware that we need. The brand new ECP01 dual-output power adapter card is another of such solutions. The ECP01, in its simplicity, offers a 12V DC and a 5V 3A USB charging…
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Mach Xtreme Unveiled the Impressive Mach EXPRESS PCIe SSD
Mach Xtreme is a company that I’m mostly familiar with due to their SATA DOMs that I’ve used in a lot of builds over the years, but they also make normal flash drives and SSDs. Now they’re ready with an impressive new drive that I almost missed the news on…
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ASUS PCE-AC88 AC3100 PCIe Adapter Review
Introduction The wireless network speeds seemed like they were standing still for a while through the AC1200 and AC1900 times, but lucky for all of us, those times are gone and we’ve arrived at the AC3000 times. To use the newer and faster speeds, we also need new Wireless network…
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Samsung’s 960 EVO SSD Might Pack Quite the Punch
Samsung is reportedly almost ready with their latest consumer-oriented solid state drive in the form of the 960 EVO SSD – and it comes with a few surprises compared to previous generation drives. Samsung has fully embraced the new NVMe standard and they’ve shown us some great specifications and performance…
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Plextor M8PeY 512GB PCIe NVMe SSD Review
Introduction The time where we were limited by the SATA3 bus and its 600Mbps bandwidth limit is gone and history and while M.2 modules are the small and cool way to go, they aren’t an option for everyone. This is where PCI-Express add-in cards come into play with their naturally…
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Thecus Launches Two New 10GbE Network Interface Cards
The network speeds that we’ve been using have more or less been the same for the past many many years, 1 Gbps, but that simply doesn’t always cut it. We can trunk and aggregate multiple ports to get a better overall performance, but a single connection still won’t go past…
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Zotac Sonix 480GB PCIe NVMe SSD Review
Introduction We have finally entered the new storage era and it is no longer just a few selected manufacturers that have NVMe drives on the market. More competition and more options are great for us consumers and it is a pleasure for me to take Zotac’s Sonix PCIe-based NVMe SSD…
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SilverStone ES01 PCI-E Remote PC Switch Kit
Introduction There are many forms of being lazy, or maybe we should rather call it an extra comfort feature that expands your abilities. Today I’m taking a closer look at SilverStone’s ES01 expansion card which allows you turn your PC on and off as well as reset it remotely. This…
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SilverStone Releases ES01 Remote PC Switch Kit
Have you ever wished to turn your computer on and off from afar, much in the same way that you do when you unlock your car with your remote key? Well you can’t have been the only one as SilverStone just released the ES01 that is just that. The SilverStone…
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Inateck KT9001 USB 3.0 and AC Wi-Fi Expansion Card Review
Introduction You might be short of some extra USB ports in your system, or maybe you just want another host controller to keep up the transfer speeds on multiple devices at once. Maybe your system doesn’t have a wireless network connection or you just want to upgrade your old 2.4GHz…
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Sonnet Announced High-Performance USB 3.0 PCI Express Adapter Card
Your system might have a lot of USB 3.0 ports already and you might even have extended them with a hub or two for more availability, but the speed will be shared among all these ports and it will slow down on one if you tax another. That’s not a…
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