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Buffalo Technology DriveStation Duo USB 3
Buffalo’s DriveStation Duo has established a name for itself as a fast, efficient way to provide secure, external storage. It comprises two high-capacity, high performance hard drives in a neat external box, connected to your PC via USB. It comes with backup and other support software, requires little power and automatically keeps two copies of…
Fractal Design Define R3 Case
Fractal Design is a Swedish manufacturer specialising in low-noise computer products. The Define R3 is the company’s latest midi tower enclosure, and aims to strike a balance between low noise and cooling. What it looks like Aesthetically the R3 is fairly minimalist, with clean lines and a featureless aluminium door to hide unsightly optical drives….
Dell Vostro 460
Dell’s Vostro series is designed to offer small businesses a good specification for the money, along with ease of maintenance. The Vostro 460 sits at the more powerful end of the range, featuring a choice of faster Intel Core processors. First impressionsThe casing for the Vostro 460 system is compact at 14x7x17.5in. Dell touts it…
Corsair Graphite Series 600T Mid-Tower Case
Corsair is a name more commonly associated with high-performance memory and, more recently, SSD storage. Its first venture into PC cases – the Obsidian 800D – was well received by most reviewers, but wasn’t without its critics. For one, the case was incredibly heavy, tipping the scales at a back-breaking 16kg. It also took some…
Corsair 256GB Performance 3 SSD
Solid state drives are one of the biggest things to happen to the PC industry in a decade. If you analyse how far processors have come in the past ten years, you’d be looking at a near 50-fold increase in performance. Today’s 7,200rpm hard drives, on the other hand, are only around twice as fast…
Dell – Inspiron Zino HD 410
The idea behind Dell’s Zino HD 410 – a PC that’s attached to your TV – has been round for years. The first flurry of lounge-based PCs appeared when Microsoft launched Windows XP Media Center version in 2002. The Media Center side of things was (and still is) impressive – but most of the home-theatre…
Asus – P8P67 Deluxe Motherboard
Asus will be the first to admit that the launch of its motherboards for Intel’s Socket 1156 processors fell short of perfection, allowing rivals Gigabyte and MSI to get an early foothold in the market. Keen to avoid a repeat performance with the newer Socket 1155 ‘Sandy Bridge’ chipsets, Asus has rolled out a comprehensive…
Hitachi GST – Deskstar 7K3000 3TB (HDS723030ALA640)
Surprisingly, it isn’t its colossal capacity of 3 terabytes (3TB) that makes the Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 unique. After all, the company hasn’t produced the world’s first 3TB hard disk drive – that honour goes to Samsung. Nor is it the world’s first internal 3.5in 3TB drive – for that, you can thank Western Digital. The…
Kingston – Kingston HyperX Max 3.0
The Kingston HyperX Max 3.0 is an external USB 3.0 drive that uses flash memory to provide either 64GB, 128GB or 256GB of storage, depending on the depth of your wallet. Prices vary, but you’ll need to budget around£89, £199 or £399, respectively. Sleek and stylishThe Kingston HyperX Max 3.0′s sleek blue aluminium housing looks…