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We've freshened up our system guide with new-and-improved builds featuring Ivy Bridge CPUs, 28-nm graphics processors, and cheaper-than-ever solid-state drives. Come and see what...

Type: Feature article Tags: Systems

Android-powered mini PCs seem to be the hip new trend these days. The Raspberry Pi folks deserve a lot of the credit for inciting...

Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Systems

No question about it: SSD prices have a taken a nosedive lately. Just look at Samsung's 830 Series 128GB SSD. Right now, it's on sale at...

Type: News story Tags: Storage Gaming

We've got a couple of pretty juicy deals for you all this week. The first is OCZ's Agility 3 60GB solid-state drive, which is on...

Type: News story Tags: Power Storage

Murphy was right. If something can go wrong, it will... eventually. Earlier this week, the water main connected to our house burst, submerging...

Type: Blog post Tags: Storage Internet

Little-known fact: Seagate sells solid-state drives. The SSDs are targeted strictly at enterprise customers, but they exist. Seagate now says it's whipped up a...

Type: News story Tags: Storage

We've singled out a trio of storage deals for you all this week, starting with a pretty substantially discounted Crucial m4 256GB solid-state drive. Normally...

Type: News story Tags: Storage Gaming

The market for enthusiast-grade PC gaming hardware is doing well, according to the latest report from Jon Peddie Research. All told, it was...

Type: News story Tags: Systems Gaming

We love ultra-small-form-factor PCs like Zotac's tiniest Zbox systems. Now, it looks like Intel is working on a new form factor that's...

Type: News story Tags: Systems

We already mentioned the Radeon HD 7000-series price cuts in last week's deal post, but prices seem to have dropped even more since then. Take...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Storage

Man, I cannot wait to get started on my next build. Nearly all the necessary components are already laid out on my workbench. Some were...

Type: Blog post Tags: Systems

The solid-state drive market is a harsh, unforgiving place for smaller vendors. Or, at least, would one think so after reading DigiTimes' latest piece. The...

Type: News story Tags: Storage

AMD made some cuts to Radeon HD 7000-series prices earlier this week. The cuts have since propagated to e-tail listings, and the pickings are plentiful. The...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Storage

Rumors about a free, cloud-based Google storage service date back to at least 2007. The search giant may finally be on the cusp of...

Type: News story Tags: Storage Internet

Forbes is running an interesting interview with Seagate CEO Steve Luczo. The lengthy piece covers everything from the impact of the Thailand floods...

Type: News story Tags: Storage

Just over two months after introducing its 520 Series SSD, Intel is back with a new model based on the same SandForce SF-2281 controller....

Type: News story Tags: Storage

Is there any hope for high-performance mechanical drives? We test WD's latest 10k-RPM VelociRaptor 1TB against a diverse array of competitors to find out.

Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Servers Workstations

This week's deal post is all about three-letter acronyms and initialisms. Let's start with SSDs: Newegg is running one of its Shell Shocker promotions on...

Type: News story Tags: Power Storage Memory Gaming