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AMD Launches Threadripper NVMe RAID Support
It’s a week later than anticipated, but AMD finally launched NVMe RAID support for its Threadripper processors. The new update enables RAID 0, 1, and 10 support for up to 10 NVMe SSDs connected to the Threadripper’s 64 PCIe lanes. However, your motherboard may need a BIOS update first. In…
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HighPoint Announces RocketStor 6628 with Thunderbolt 3
HighPoint had a lot of success with their first generation Thunderbolt 3 enclosures, and now the company is back with the second generation. The two new devices are the RocketStor 6628A and the RocketStor 6628T which feature improved hardware and a refined enclosure. At the same time, the new solutions are some…
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Alphacool Introduces HDX-5 M.2 RAID Card with Heatsink
Alphacool introduced the HDX-5 which is a RAID controller card for M.2 and SATA3 drives, complete with a large heatsink in a PCIe add-in card form factor. Dual SATA Connectivity and RAID Alphacool’s HDX-5 features two M.2 SATA slots that can take modules of most lengths as well as two traditional…
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HighPoint Announces SSD7101A-1 NVMe RAID Controller Availability
HighPoint has announced that they’re now shipping the SSD7101A-1 NVMe RAID controller which means that you’ll be able to get one for your system. The SSD7101A-1 is probably the fastest NVMe RAID solution that you can get right now. Even with single drives, the controller will deliver a better performance than…
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HighPoint Releases SSD7101 NVMe RAID SSD
HighPoint is well known for their RocketStor and Thunderbolt Enclosures, but also their RocketRAID series. Recently the company started their NVMe solutions with the RocketRAID 3800 HBA, but this new release is a little different. The new SSD7101 series is full-height PCI-Express add-in card with NVMe RAID for an impressive…
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A Year With NVMe RAID 0 in a Real World Setup
Introduction There are a lot of misconception and some right information out there when it comes to the combination of solid state drives with RAID setups and what better way is there to get to the root of them than to create a real world test setup and find out.…
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OWC Announces Redesigned Mercury Elite Pro Dual
OWC specialises in zero-emissions hardware products and tends to unleash storage options for Mac and PC. Recently, the company unveiled the Memory Elite Pro Dual which is RAID solution pairing together two disk drives to provide exemplary performance. According to OWC, the product offers read speeds up to 474MB/s and…
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ASUS Republic of Gamers Announces G701VI Gaming Laptop
ASUS Republic of Gamers announced a new and quite impressive gaming laptop for immersive VR gaming that packs a punch in both the hardware and built-in monitor. The new ASUS ROG G701VI is packed with both an i7 Skylake CPU and 64G RAM as well as a GTX 1080 GPU…
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SilverStone Releases 4-Bay Dual-Thunderbolt 2 RAID Enclosure
While NAS setups are the way most people go for their external storage needs, DAS (Direct Attached Storage) does have its benefits despite not having their own network connection. While they only connect to one system at a time and not an entire network, they come with an increased data…
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German Police Raid Hate Content Posters
The internet has many sides. The light side, where people post pictures requesting that people use Pokémon Go lures at hospitals to help those unable to walk around and play the game, to the dark side where people will post offensive comments and remarks just to laugh and mock people.…
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Seagate NAS 8TB HDD in 4-Disk RAID Review
Introduction Picking the just the right storage drive for your task isn’t always an easy task, there are quite a few options on the market by now when it comes to high-capacity mechanical drives and today I’m taking a closer look at how one of the best performing NAS drives…
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PNY XLR8 CS2211 240GB SSD in 2-Disk RAID Review
Introduction I often read the comment ‘that would be awesome with two SSDs in a RAID setup’ or ‘I would love two of these new SSDs for a RAID setup’ in our comment sections, both on the page itself and on our social media pages. So I grab the chance…
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Hoverboard Company Backs Down After Rivals Raided At CES 2016
Trends come and go, from the latest phone to the newest console people often buy and then upgrade their technology a few months later. A few years ago the world was caught in a segway craze, with users riding around work and towns to doing rallies through woodland on the…
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SilverStone Releases SATA and USB 3.1 Add-In Cards
SilverStone has been on a frenzy lately, releasing a lot of new products. Among them are two new PCI-Express add-in cards that could come in very handy and add some modern features or extra functionality to your system. The two new PCI-Express cards are the ECS03 2-port Hardware RAID SATA controller…
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Seagate Enterprise NAS 6TB HDD Four Disk RAID Review
Introduction We’ve already had the pleasure of a single drive review of Seagate’s Enterprise NAS 6TB HDDs and today it has become time for the RAID review. Thecus provided me with five of these drives, but I’ll only be using four in this review today. Four is a magic number…
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