The drives come in capacities ranging from a paltry 250GB up to a capacious 4TB. Samsung covers the drives with a five-year warranty. Both sequential and random performance is identical regardless of the capacity point, with up to 560 MBps of sequential read and 530 MBps of write throughput, and 98,000/88,000 random read/write IOPS on tap. … [Read more...] about Samsung Announces 870 EVO SSDs with 128-Layer TLC Flash
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Grab a 1TB Team Group SATA SSD For Just $77
While the price of GPUs continues to rise, SSDs are a bright spot, because even as the cost of controllers has gone up slightly, the NAND has gotten cheaper, leading to more steady or even falling prices. Nowhere is this more evident than the price of 2.5-inch SATA SSDs, which are much faster than old fashioned hard drives, but not nearly as quick as the M.2 drives you'll find as boot drives in today's fastest PCs. … [Read more...] about Grab a 1TB Team Group SATA SSD For Just $77
The best Google Photos alternatives
Best features: OneDrive If you’re going to pay for cloud storage, you might as well get the most you can out of it. If you’ve been relying on free services like Google Docs, it may be time to switch to Microsoft Office. For a comparable price to the competition, users can get 1TB of OneDrive storage along with Microsoft Office — which is more robust than Google Docs and has a significantly better mobile experience (especially on iOS). … [Read more...] about The best Google Photos alternatives
HP Spectre x360 14 review: The convertible 2-in-1, perfected
As with the Tiger Lake version of the Spectre x360 13, the 14-inch version has two USB Thunderbolt 4 ports on the right-hand side, one on the edge and one embedded in the notch underneath the display. There’s also a 3.5mm audio jack and miniSD card reader on this side of the chassis. On the other side is the single USB-A 3.1 port. One difference from the 13-inch model is that the power button is no longer in the other notch — this time, it’s on the keyboard, which is a bummer for anyone who uses their laptop closed with an external display. … [Read more...] about HP Spectre x360 14 review: The convertible 2-in-1, perfected
The best Macbook alternatives for 2021
Like the others on this list, connectivity is a major difference. The ThinkPad X1 Carbon provides two Thunderbolt 3 ports, two USB-A ports, an HDMI 1.4 port, a 3.5mm audio jack, and a WWAN slot on specific models. The MacBook Pro only supplies a single 3.5mm audio jack and either two or four Thunderbolt 3 ports, requiring adapters or a dock for HDMI and peripheral compatibility. … [Read more...] about The best Macbook alternatives for 2021