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On the one hand, the Crucial X10 Pro is Micron’s first USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 (20 Gbps) portable SSD—rivaling the SanDisk Extreme Pro or the WD Black P50—and it has everything to live up to its specs. As a matter of fact, it’s the fastest portable SSD for the USB …
Comcast today announced the Storm-Ready WiFi, an aptly-named Wi-Fi broadcaster designed to keep its Xfinity Cable broadband customers connected during, well, a storm. That’s the idea. Judging from the name, this is a timely product. The hurricane season is coming to certain parts of the US. Considering climate change and …
If you have a Synology NAS server, you probably already know that there are many things you can do with it besides hosting backups and shared folders. One of those is building your DIY IP-cam security system via the Synology Surveillance Station add-on package. In my opinion, this feature is …
Over two years ago, I reviewed the Micron Crucial X6 and thought it was the tiniest portable SSD that’s fast and spacious. I’d sound like a broken record today if you asked me to describe the company’s latest portable SSD, the Crucial X9 Pro. And I’d only be more right. …
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 …
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 …
It took me quite some time to finally review the Ubiquiti Dream Machine Special Edition (UDM-SE). I generally cover consumer products, and this advanced device is designed for prosumers, SMBs, or even enterprise environments. The UDM-SE was released in the first part of 2022, around the time of the home-friendly …
This is a quick take to address the requests (and questions) I’ve gotten since the review of the Archer BE800. Folks have been wondering why I didn’t evaluate the Archer BE900 instead. “It’s the king of Wi-Fi routers right now,” they say. Is it, though? TP-Link Archer BE900: The old-school …
