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SanDisk has quietly retired the familiar WD_BLACK and WD Blue NVMe SSD badges and resurrected an old name — Optimus — as the new umbrella for its client SSD lineup, and with that change it introduced a compact, high-performance M.2 2230 drive built specifically for handheld gaming: the SanDisk...

DapuStor’s Roealsen6 R6101 7.68TB U.2 Gen5 SSD arrives not as a curious challenger but as a full‑blown contender: a PCIe 5.0 x4, NVMe 2.0 enterprise drive built around DapuStor’s in‑house DP800 controller that delivers some of the highest steady‑state 4K read IOPS we’ve seen from any single‑port...

Kingston’s new DC3000ME Gen5 U.2 SSD arrives as one of the clearest statements yet that PCIe 5.0 enterprise flash is moving out of the OEM-only channel and into mainstream procurement — a high-capacity, 1‑DWPD data center drive with Gen5 performance, broad security and telemetry features, and...

Lenovo’s IFA 2025 showing landed some genuinely promising hardware — a redesigned entry-level LOQ Tower with clearer upgrade intent, a trio of premium Legion PureSight OLED gaming monitors, and refreshed Legion laptops and handheld updates — but a single, surprising architectural choice...

Beelink’s EQi13 Pro arrives as a pragmatic mid‑range Windows 11 Pro mini PC that squeezes a 13th‑Gen Intel Core i5‑13500H into a compact, user‑serviceable chassis with dual M.2 PCIe Gen4 slots, dual HDMI outputs and dual Gigabit Ethernet — and CNX Software’s thorough Part 2 tests show the...

WAVLINK’s entry-level 10GBase‑T PCIe card — sold under model WL‑NWP004 and branded across marketplaces as a “WAVLINK 10G Base‑T PCIe Network Card” using an AQC113 controller — promises a low‑cost gateway to 10Gbps Ethernet for desktop builders, but a closer look at the hardware, drivers and the...

This week’s PC Perspective podcast episode unspools a tight, messy knot of hardware headlines: a Windows 11 patch that coincided with reports of disappearing SSDs and an industry-wide investigation, a dramatic leap in QLC NAND that promises denser consumer drives, NVIDIA’s Blackwell-era push...

I have a TP-Link TX201 2.5 Gigabit PCI Express. I have had a problem with losing connection. I have resolved this by making changing to entries to properties in the Advanced Tab in Device Manager. I have also done: netsh winsock reset netsh int ip reset The issue I have now is that the...

Microsoft’s recent service alert closes a week of anxious speculation by saying that the August 2025 Windows 11 update is not responsible for a wave of reported SSD disappearances and failures, but the episode leaves important forensic questions and practical lessons for power users, IT teams...

A wave of community test results and vendor confirmations this week has put the latest Windows 11 cumulative update under a harsh spotlight: several SSDs can disappear from Windows during sustained, large write operations after installing the August 12, 2025 update (KB5063878), with a...

The 2025 desktop gaming market has matured into a clear split: compact, high-efficiency small-form-factor rigs for living-room-worthy performance, and purpose-built towers that prioritize raw frame rates, thermal headroom, and upgradeability. This feature pulls together the best pre-built...

The MSI Cubi NUC AI 2MG quietly rewrites expectations for what a palm‑sized PC can do: it combines an Intel Core Ultra mobile CPU, Intel Arc integrated graphics, on‑board NPU acceleration, and a full complement of business‑grade I/O into a sub‑liter chassis that’s explicitly positioned as a...

A wave of reproducible reports and a parallel burst of misinformation have combined to create one of the more consequential Patch Tuesday headaches in recent memory: Microsoft’s August 12, 2025 cumulative for Windows 11 (KB5063878) has been linked to SSDs disappearing under sustained, heavy...

Microsoft’s decision to expand Azure’s reliance on Marvell’s LiquidSecurity hardware security modules for Azure Cloud HSM is a clear, strategic signal that hyperscalers are betting on cloud‑native, PCIe‑attached HSM architectures to deliver higher density, better power efficiency, and broad...

Microsoft has selected Marvell’s LiquidSecurity family of hardware security modules (HSMs) to power its Azure Cloud HSM offering — a move that consolidates Marvell’s role across Azure’s key management portfolio and brings FIPS 140‑3 Level 3‑certified, high‑density PCIe HSMs into Microsoft’s...

AMD’s “Rome” EPYC announcement and the related Computex chatter about deeper Azure collaboration mixed accurate engineering milestones with translation-smoothed promotional claims, but the core story is straightforward: AMD’s 2nd‑generation EPYC (Rome) legitimately reshaped server economics and...

External graphics processing units, or eGPUs, appear to offer a simple route to high-end graphical power for laptops, ultrabooks, and mini-PCs—giving owners of slim and lightweight systems the promise of desktop-class GPU performance simply by plugging in a single cable. But after years of...

When it comes to the bleeding edge of high-performance solid-state storage, few names stir the conversation in 2025 quite like KingSpec, and their latest offering—the XG7000 8TB NVMe PCIe Gen4 SSD—is sending ripples across the tech community. Those following the relentless surge of...

A sleek black minitower tinged with Nordic frost and pulsing RGB, the ASGARD A78X3D.32.S10.57.5813 arrives in the mid-range gaming PC market with a promise: bring current high-performance gaming and productivity to the masses without breaking the bank. Yet behind its mystical branding and...

The server processor market has rarely been as dynamic and contentious as it is in the current landscape, with established giants like Intel being challenged by AMD’s aggressive foray into the entry server space. At the center of the latest upheaval stands the AMD EPYC 4005 "Grado" series, newly...