The resource of modern hard drives. Longread about the sudden

Last time we looked at the stages of the struggle for dominance in the “disk” subsystem of solid state drives and traditional hard drives. In the same place, we briefly highlighted the nuances of the resource of solid-state drives. Today we will try to consider the practical reliability of hard drives. It would seem a …

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Review and testing of Acer Nitro 5 laptop based on AMD Ryzen 7 2700U processor and Radeon RX 560X graphics card

The laptop market continues to expand and innovate every year and Acer laptops are one of the participants in this ongoing race. Now we are witnessing a revival of competition in the market, because before, devices based on Intel processors actually dominated. But with the advent of the Zen architecture, the situation begins to level …

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Kingston A1000 NVMe PCIe SSD 480 GB review and testing. High speed at an affordable price

When choosing a new SSD drive, ordinary users are increasingly turning their attention to high-speed models with a PCI Express connection interface and support for the NVMe protocol. Such drives are much faster in working with linear data and in addition do not require the use of extra wires during installation. The only factor that …

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Overview of the main events of 2017. Memory, overclocking and new trends

In the last part of our report, dedicated to the novelties of the outgoing year in the world of hardware, we will tell you what else this fast-growing industry and related areas are remembered for. For example, one of the most important events in the last 365 days in the SSD segment was the release …

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Kingston SSD UV500 240 GB Review and Test

The UV series is the entry-level entry into Kingston’s wide range of SSDs. Its main purpose is to provide an opportunity for a budget transition to the world of SSD for that category of PC users who, for one reason or another, have not yet begun to take full advantage of solid state storage systems. …

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The evolution of SSD: the magic of mercantologists and its exposure. Longread about the penetration of solid state drives into our lives

Despite the fact that today not only everyone (s) can afford an SSD, nevertheless, few people outside the professional environment soberly understand the selection process other than “sort by price ascending” in an online store. And what is most interesting – they are, in general, almost right. I ask you to postpone throwing vegetables for …

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Review and testing of ASUS TUF Gaming FX505G laptop based on Intel Core i7-8750H processor and GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card

ASUSTeK Computer is one of the largest manufacturers in the computer market, including a wide range of laptops. Among them are laptops of the TUF Gaming series, which combine high performance with increased requirements for ruggedness and compact size. In this review, we take a look at the powerful TUF Gaming FX505G 15-inch gaming laptop …

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Kingston KC2000 NVMe PCIe SSD 500 GB Review and Test

In the market for solid state drives, the trend continues to reduce the retail cost of devices, which is good news. High-speed SSDs with a PCI Express 3.0 x4 connection interface have ceased to be the lot of enthusiasts and are increasingly shifting to the mass segment. Today we will get acquainted with the KC2000 …

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Review and testing of GoodRAM IRDM Ultimate X PCIe GEN 4 x4 NVMe M.2 1000 GB SSD. SSD for Ryzen

Wilk Elektronik, which owns the GoodRAM brand, continues to delight us with its latest innovations, and this time we will look at another NVMe SSD. But if our last guest was an ordinary bufferless model, today’s one is a progressive solution with PCI Express 4.0 support. There are not many such drives now and they …

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Team T-Force CARDEA Ceramic C440 M.2 PCIe 4.0 1000 GB SSD Review and Test

While some promise a new revision of the high-speed PCI Express bus, others have been offering it for the second year already. Intel’s sluggishness has delayed the introduction of this interface, which is why some products using it are slowly moving out of the demo phase. For example, new NVMe drives with fast controllers that …

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