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By Lewis Leong USB Type-C is quickly becoming the standard smartphone and laptop port, replacing the aging microUSB standard. SanDisk is getting with the times with its new line of dual-tipped flash drives that feature both a USB-A connection for laptops and USB-C for smartphones. The new flash drives, called “SanDisk Ultra Dual Drive USB…

By Lewis Leong USB Type-C is quickly becoming the standard smartphone and laptop port, replacing the aging microUSB standard. SanDisk is getting with the times with its new line of dual-tipped flash drives that feature both a USB-A connection for laptops and USB-C for smartphones. The new flash drives, called “SanDisk Ultra Dual Drive USB…

By Darren Allan A new survey from data recovery firm Kroll Ontrack has found that SSDs suffer from a worryingly high failure rate. The research, which encompassed some 1,850 customers across North America, Europe and Asia, found that 92% were using SSDs now, but the number reporting failures had grown. Almost four in 10 –…

By David Howell Introduction and falling costs Flash storage as a replacement for traditional hard drives has been touted as the next great hardware advance for the last few years. When techradar pro spoke with Vaughn Stewart, VP, enterprise architect at Pure Storage, he said: “Flash is a massively disruptive technology. Enterprise storage vendors that…

By Matt Swider Everyone keeps saying “virtual reality is here,” but the price of an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, coupled with building a high-end PC, remains fantastical barrier to entry. At Computex 2016, that’s a problem that may be solved by the AMD Radeon RX 480, an affordable, VR-capable graphics card that promises to…

By Kevin Lee AMD has been teasing its 7th generation Bristol Ridge APUs for quite a while now but we’re finally getting the full details on the company’s new system on a chip. As expected, Bristol Ridge comes with four excavator cores and eight Radeon graphics cores. Some of the underlying improvements include HEVC support…

By Parker Wilhelm Not content with making the world’s highest-capacity microSD card, Samsung is doubling down on a miniature solid-state drive that’s barely the size of a fingernail but stores a whopping 512 gigabytes of data. The first of its kind, the PM971-NVMe SSD is a single ball grid array (BGA) package comprised of 16…

By Darren Allan Intel has unveiled its new Xeon E3-1500 v5 range of Skylake-based processors which are designed to be a cost-effective solution for streaming video and other graphics-heavy applications. As the company notes, video now accounts for something like 80% of all internet traffic, and service providers can make use of the new Xeon…

By Kevin Lee The Broadwell-E Intel Core i7-6950X is arguably the world’s most powerful processor ever created. It’s the first processor from Intel to come packing 10-cores. What’s more, they’re all running at a base clock of 3GHz or up to 3.5Ghz thanks to Intel’s new TurboBoost 3.0 technology. You can bet this Broadwell-E part…

By Kevin Lee The Broadwell-E Intel Core i7-6950X is arguably the world’s most powerful processor ever created. It’s the first processor from Intel to come packing 10-cores. What’s more, they’re all running at a base clock of 3GHz or up to 3.5Ghz thanks to Intel’s new TurboBoost 3.0 technology. You can bet this Broadwell-E part…

By Darren Allan How fast is the new GeForce GTX 1070? Pretty darn fast according to the latest benchmark spilled onto the net, and in fact it edges out Nvidia’s mighty Titan X. This is according to benchmarks carried out by Videocardz, which found that in 3DMark FireStrike, the average benchmark of the GTX 1070…

By Lewis Leong Gaming company SteelSeries is releasing what it claims is the “world’s first modular gaming mouse,” the Rival 700. But, I’m not entirely convinced it’s the world’s first modular gaming mouse, as Mad Catz R.A.T. Pro X also features a fully modular design. Personalization is the goal of the Rival 700, allowing gamers…

By Desire Athow The competition is heating up at the top end of the hard disk drive market with Toshiba finally announcing its first 8TB hard disk drive, the X300, one aimed at the high performance market: that’s nearly two years after Seagate first announced its model. The drive sports a 7200RPM spinning speed, 128MB…

By Desire Athow The competition is heating up at the top end of the hard disk drive market with Toshiba finally announcing its first 8TB hard disk drive, the X300, one aimed at the high performance market: that’s nearly two years after Seagate first announced its model. The drive sports a 7200RPM spinning speed, 128MB…

By Desire Athow Businesses spend countless hours trying to figure out how to improve the productivity of their workers even by a fraction of a percent. That’s because every single process that can be tweaked, every second that can be shaved and every step that can be finetuned brings tangible benefits in terms of overall…