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Our overflow bucket wasn't too full this week. Only a couple of hardware announcements in our inbox hadn't already made it into our daily news...

Type: News story Tags: Cooling Memory

The steady decline of SSD prices continues. According to "reliable sources" quoted by VR-Zone, Intel is set to discount its 320, 330, and...

Type: News story Tags: Storage

Add another color to Western Digital's rainbow of mechanical hard drives. To complement its 3.5" Black, Blue, and Green families, WD has rolled...

Type: News story Tags: Storage

Howdy.  Hope you enjoyed the odd combination of a holiday sandwiched by weekends.  The past week was a strange one for those of us who...

Type: News story Tags: Miscellaneous The Tech Report

SSD prices have plummeted over the past year. No wonder solid-state drives have been regular fixtures in our weekly deals posts. There are plenty...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Storage Mobile computing

Things will probably be a little slow for the rest of the week due to the Independence Day holiday. However, a few new product announcements...

Type: News story Tags: Cases Storage

As TR's resident fan-control nerd, I've spent far too much time critiquing how motherboards go about adjusting fan speeds in response to system temperatures. ...

Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Cooling Software

We're taking a break from our usual deal hunting this week to bring you a handful of nifty coupon codes. Newegg happens to have a...

Type: News story Tags: Power Storage Memory

Every week, we gather press releases that slipped through the net of our daily coverage, and we post them in the release roundup. This week,...

Type: News story Tags: Cases Power Storage

Add SK-Hynix to the growing list of SSD vendors. The memory maker recently announced its intent to buy controller maker LAMD. Now,...

Type: News story Tags: Storage

PCI Express 3.0 slots are all over new motherboards these days. The latest and greatest graphics cards adhere to the third-gen spec, and now...

Type: News story Tags: Storage Servers Workstations

Although Seagate has a line of Pulsar solid-state drives designed for enterprise markets and a small collection of hybrids for notebooks, it's thus far shied...

Type: News story Tags: Storage Servers Workstations

Introducing William Thomas Wasson, born in the wee hours of Sunday morning. William and his mom...

Type: News story Tags: The Tech Report

You probably got the memo by now: SSD prices are going down, down, down, and the deals are getting hotter. We have evidence in the...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Storage Gaming

In the wake of Computex, big launches are usually followed by smaller ones—and, in some cases, availability of products we saw at the show. This...

Type: News story Tags: Cases Storage Input devices Mobile computing Workstations

The storage market is no stranger to acquisitions. In the last year or so, Seagate bought Samsung's HDD business, Western Digital picked up Hitachi's...

Type: News story Tags: Storage

Thanks in part to the popularity of closed-loop water coolers, liquid cooling is becoming more and more prevalent in high-end desktop PCs. Servers are...

Type: News story Tags: Cooling Servers

Cancel your plans, raid the bank account, and saddle up the family truckster on the weekend of August 11th so you can attend the ninth...

Type: News story Tags: The Tech Report