Crucial BX300 480GB Review – Keeping your expectations in check is not the most enthralling way to approach a new SSD, but it’s very much the attitude to have when considering a standard SATA drive, such as the Crucial BX300. For starters, it’s a SATA drive in an age when SSDs hooked up via the far-faster PCI … Read more
Corsair One Elite Review – We’ve seen powerful PCs, small form factor rigs and quiet systems, but you rarely see a rig that’s effectively all three. That’s the Corsair One, though, and this stunning PC has now been updated with new components. The external design hasn’t changed, but it didn’t need changing anyway. It’s still made … 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
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
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
Samsung’s 850 series SSDs has been a popular choice for some time and comes in a 2.5in hard drive-sized format to plug into the SATA connectors found in most desktop PCs. When the 950 arrived last year, it was more of a niche product. It used the stripped-down M.2 format – a small printed circuit … Read more
CRUCIAL MX500 1TB SSD Review – Technologically speaking, the SATA SSD market has been pretty stagnant over the last couple of years. NAND flash shortages in 2017 have also somewhat bottlenecked the industry. The rise of PCI Express based NVMe drives with their performance advantages means that older SATA based drives typically don’t grab the headlines … Read more