Tag Archives RAID
DREVO D1 M.2 2280 240GB Internal SSD Review
Last year, Hardwareslave went out to test the cheapest M.2 SSD 240Gb drive there was, no matter who made it, or what it was. We stumbled on the DREVO D1 M.2 2280 240GB Internal SSD, at the time it was the cheapest we could find in M.2 Form Factor. We purchased it for £64.99, a bargain we thought, but our [...]
Crucial BX300 480Gb SSD Storage Review
We’ve reviewed most of Crucial's SSD product line over the
years and it’s given us some good insight into their
market placement and development. We have recently revie [...]
TerraMaster D5-300 USB 3.0 External Hard Drive RAID Enclosure Review
Weather you have a very large digital media collection or
you just need lots of storage space for your work and/or
backups then pairing your hard drives with a multi- [...]
Crucial Mx200 250gb Two, Three And Four-Way SSD Raid Review
Nowadays, SSDs have such a high reliability that we can
operate multiple SSDs in a RAID0 to get multiple speed. We
like to know how fast a RAID can be consisting of two SS [...]
Western Digital 4TB Red HDD Storage Review
For years the Hard Disk Drive was the mainstay of all
commercial personal computers around the world. It’s had a
bashing lately from the superb Solid State Drive technolo [...]
Asus Z170M Plus mATX Motherboard Review
Asus are calling this their “Flagship micro-ATX Z170 with
5X Protection II for dependable stability, fantastic DDR4
performance, and reversible USB Type-C connectivit [...]
ASRock Z170 Extreme4 Motherboard Review
Every system builder these days will know the name ASRock,
and it’s welcome, in the past ten years we have seen the
number of motherboard manufacturers dwindle, losing [...]
Crucial BX200 480Gb SSD Storage Review
Solid state drives are very different from the legacy
HDD’s, but not just in a technology sense. HDD’s had
pretty much hit their development peak when SSD’s star [...]
Crucial MX200 500Gb SSD Storage Review
We have a bit of a dual review today, in a couple of
different ways. SSDs are the mainstay of enthusiast system
configuration, in single or dual disk configuration. So [...]
Samsung 950 PRO 256GB RAID Review
It’s fair to say the SATA-based SSD sector has now become
quite a stagnant marketplace. Performance has hit its peak
and plateaued – while this has meant that prices h [...]
EVGA Z170 Stinger Motherboard Review
Anyone bought an Intel Z97 motherboard recently? We think it
is one of the best Chipsets out there but Intel think it’s
time for an upgrade. They recently launched their Skyl [...]
SilverStone Teratrend TS432U 4 Bay HDD Tower Enclosure Review
The TS432U is a quad bay SATA III 3.5″ external
desktop enclosure that features both USB 3.0 and eSATA
connectivity for optimal data transfer rates. Teratrend [...]
Gigabyte Z97M-DS3H Motherboard Review
Another Z97 Chipset motherboard is on the bench, and it’s
another Gigabyte. The Z97 Chipset by Intel is probably the
mainstay of most mainstream, desktop and gamers on a w [...]
RaidSonic ICY BOX IB-RD3680SU3 External RAID Enclosure Review
The ICY BOX IB-RD3680SU3 External RAID Enclosure gives you
the ability to install up to eight 3.5″ drives inside
two trayless drive cages (4 drives each) and in turn all [...]
Home Server Build Part 4 – Optimisations
It has been a while since we posted anything about our Home
Server. From parts one through three we spec’d, built and
tested a Server that would have multimedia capability vi [...]