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At some $120 for 500GB—or $220 and $380 for 1TB and 2TB, respectively—the Samsung T7 Touch is quite a great deal. Or you can get the non-touch version, the Samsung T7, for $10 to $30 less, depending on the capacities. While the Samsung T7 and Samsung T7 Touch are not …
The latest SanDisk Extreme PRO Portable SSD, first announced late last year, is the souped-up version of the non-PRO drive that came out a year earlier. Despite supporting the same USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10 Gbps) standard, it manages to be much faster. But other than that and the slightly …
Of all Wi-Fi 6 routers from Netgear I’ve tested, the Nighthawk AX6 6-Stream AX5400 Wi-Fi 6 Router (model RAX50) is the easiest recommendation. It has the right balance of performance, features, and cost. This eye candy Wi-Fi machine doesn’t include everything you can collectively find in a high-end router. That’s …
Two years after releasing the first QLC SATA solid-state drive (SSD), the 860 QVO, Samsung today announced the availability of the 2nd-generation of the same internal storage device, the Samsung SSD 870 QVO. And it’s quite a sizeable upgrade. The drive is now available in up to a whopping 8 …
The ZenWiFi AX Mini (model XD4) is ASUS’s third purpose-built AiMesh Wi-Fi system, after the XT8 and CT8, and it turned out to be the most complete one in my testing. So, the third time seems to be the charm, and that’s the good news. The bad is this mesh …
Chronologically, the Synology DS220+—one of the four new servers Synology announced today—is the defacto upgrade to the previous model, the DS218+, that came out two years ago. In reality, it’s more of a variant. Indeed, the two have more in common than they do in differences. Here’s the lowdown on …
If you’re about to upgrade your computer to an NVMe solid-state drive (SSD) or have one laying around and want to turn it into a portable drive, you’ll find this Alxum Aluminum M.2 NVME SSD Enclosure quite handy. While ready-made NVMe-based portable drives, such as the Crucial X8, can be …
