Western Digital My Passport X 2TB Review – Game console owners get a My Passport specifically for them Since it launched them Western Digital has done a roaring trade with its My Passport product range. Starting first with USB 2.0, we’ve since seen a move to USB 3.0 and even Thunderbolt connections. The current range includes … Read more
Getting to know the Movavi Video Converter I remembered the time, I went on vacation about 5 years ago, I traveled to the Amazon and I tried making every second of that journey memorable. I brought out my camera and recorded all the events, tours and the educative lessons taught. When I got back home, … Read more
ASRock Z370 Taichi Review – It’s becoming incredibly harder for motherboard manufacturers to differentiate their products. They all pay generally the same price for the Z370 chipset, as well as many of the components on the board, such as the audio system. So just how do you make your board stand out against the rest … Read more
Traditional hard disk drives may very well still have a place in modern computing, but the future belongs to SSDs. By Kenny Yeo Art Direction by Orland Punzalan Six years ago, a 256GB SSD would set you back nearly. Today, the same capacity drive can be had for as little as and that same can … Read more
NOT QUITE AS FAST AS CLAIMED… Make no bones about It, if you’re building a new home, you need to install Ethernet into every room in the home, leading back to a central closet where you can host an 8-port switch. If you own a home, we highly recommend saving up and spending the $500 or … Read more
SYNOLOGY RT1900AC Why-fi? You’ve probably already got a router. Your internet provider gave it to you. Why then, asks Martin Pipe, do you need the Synology RT1900ac? REGULAR READERS WILL probably be aware of Synology, the NAS (Network Attached Storage) products of which have been featured in HCC reviews. Amongst other things, NAS enables you … Read more
D-Link DIR-842 review – These days most of us already have broadband, so we already have a Wifi router. The main reason to replace it is to improve speeds or reception – purposes very well served by the new mesh routers we’ve reviewed over the past year. If you happen to need a new Wi-Fi router … Read more
An extremely powerful video and audio converter that’s also totally free. HandBrake Review – HandBrake is a free video converter that’s fairly well known to Mac users, but less famous in the world of Windows. It is worth noting that this is still something of an experimental program and it hasn’t even reached version 1.0 in … Read more
A good looking drive that isn’t too overpriced. Although the latest version of Western Digital’s portable hard drive is available in five vibrant colors, we were rather taken with the simple and sleek glossy-white model we received for review, as it managed to all but disappear on our white test bench. WD has revamped the … Read more
LaCie Porsche Design s-Mobile Drive USB-C 2TB Shiny bytes Porsche Design is a subsidiary of the car company which sells accessories and licenses the name to non-car manufacturers. How much connection there is between the design of Porsche cars and the design of things with ‘Porsche Design’ written on them is a matter for conjecture, … Read more
WHILE AN INTERNAL SSD is a necessary upgrade for most PCs, external models have felt extravagant With the SV620, ADATA is challenging that theory with a low-cost portable external SSD sporting a USB3 connection. You get the 240GB model on test here (the 480GB model), bringing the price per gigabyte down to just 29p. ADATA … Read more
Last issue we Looked at Samsung’s new 960 Pro drives and concluded they were amazingly fast, but overkill for most people, especially for the price. However, Samsung’s new 960 Evo looks set to provide very similar performance for a far more sensible price. Like the 960 Pro drives, the Evo drives are M.2 NVMe drives, … Read more