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This is an umbrella post on Wi-Fi, the familiar name of the 802.11x networking standards. For the past two decades, Wi-Fi has been an essential cord-cutting invention. Imagine how your smartphone or tablet would be without this wireless connection. In a nutshell, Wi-Fi is an alternative to network cables, allowing …
Micron’s latest PCIe 4.0 NVMe solid-state drive, the Crucial P5 Plus, is a formidable rival to the Samsung 980 PRO. It delivered excellent performance in my tests and long-term real-world usage, even with an older PCIe 3.0 motherboard. In early 2023, Micron added the heatsink version of the drive. The P5 …
Here’s some exciting news for portable SSD fans. Micron today releases not one but two new drives, the Crucial X9 Pro and Crucial X10 Pro portable SSDs. Update: The in-depth reviews of both drives are now available. They are the upgrades to the company’s existing Crucial X8 and X6 that …
As the world is slowly adopting Wi-Fi 7, CommScope’s first complete Wi-Fi 6E solution, the 2-pack SURFboard mAX 6E tri-band Mesh Wi-Fi System (model W161) announced on June 15, 2023, is fashionably late to the party, to say the least. Yet, the company touts the new hardware as a “cutting-edge” …
The new TP-Link Deco X55 Pro AX3000 Whole Home Mesh Wi-Fi 6 System, officially available on July 7, 2023, is what the previous Deco X60 and especially the Deco X4300 Pro should have been. It’s the first Wi-Fi 6 Deco designed to deliver Gigabit, even faster, broadband in full. In …
The WD Blue SN580 NVMe SSD, first announced on June 28, is the PCIe 4.0 upgrade of the SN570 that came out in October 2021. Considering PCIe 5.0 drives are now available—such as the Crucial T700—the new NVMe SSD seems a bit dated. It won’t and can’t be the fastest …
Here’s some good news for those wanting to move to a real NAS server gingerly. Synology today announces the availability of its 2023 entry-level dual-bay NAS server, the DiskStation DS223j, as the upgrade to the DS220j that came out three years ago. As the name suggests, the new server is …
