Hardware

Storage specialist Dot Hill has announced a partnership with AMD to provide virtual RAID adapter technology to be utilized with AMD’s newer generation of APUs.  Dot Hill’s Virtual RAID Adapter technology is proving to be more flexible, and in many cases, better-performing than traditional RAID-on-motherboard or hardware RAID solutions. What is a Virtual RAID Adapter?  Traditionally, RAID protection has been …

Rosewill is known worldwide for their wide array of products, but aside from a few wireless adapters and components, total home and office networking is one area that was lacking…until now. At CES 2013 in Vegas, Rosewill gave TechnologyX a tour of their suite and surprised us with their new line of networking products. Rosewill is focusing on 802.11n as …

The wonderful Annie Kan, Creative Manager of ZOTAC, gave me a great tour of the ZOTAC booth this evening. The company has come out with next-generation models of their HTPC line, which sells very well. The small ZBOX PC’s come in a variety of flavours; one in particular is so extremely tiny that it utilizes a lone mSATA SSD! The …

Cooler Master may not have a booth at CES 2013, but they sure have a solid presence nonetheless. I met with the company earlier today in their well-equipped suite and was awed by the layout of their showcase, which was neatly organized into three categories. The first one I visited was the Cooler Master Storm gaming area: Great (and funny) …

Just a day before CES 2013 we were invited to the PNY suite at The Mirage for a product tour. The lovely Bernadette Brijlall showed us a HUGE line up of all current PNY products including their partnership with HP. They were keen to show us a new PowerPack USB battery solution for Apple, Android, Windows and Blackberry smartphones available …

Kingston Digital is using CES 2013 to announce the DataTraveler HyperX Predator 3.0 USB Flash Drive.  The DataTraveler HyperX Predator 3.0 is the world’s largest-capacity USB 3.o flash drive in its 1TB capacity version.  The 512GB version is available now; with the 1TB version expected to begin shipping later in the 1st quarter.  The DT HyperX 3.0 is now the …

We are in the age of tablets and smartphones. Both have smooth glass surfaces with only a little tactile feedback. It can feel like typing on a cutting board and continually holding a device to type can be cumbersome especially with larger tablets. Meet the low profile Logitech Tablet Wireless Keyboard. A full size 11.3  x 5.12  QWERTY keyboard, …

NVELO, Inc., pioneer of the innovative Dataplex caching software for HDDs and SSDs, has been acquired by Samsung Electronics. Previously privately held NVELO, based in Santa Clara, California, has become an industry leader with its flagship Dataplex caching software. All technology and personnel of NVELO are included in this acquisition. Samsung will now be able to include storage software expertise to …

Introducing a plethora of new accessories, it was only a matter of time before Cooler Master created their own line of Storm keyboards. This certainly is not the first time Cooler Master has dipped into keyboards; indeed, their initial endeavours were great, but lacked hype. Exposure was definitely a trait Cooler Master needed to compete in an oversaturated keyboard market, …

Staying true to its name, Cooler Master has released their newest laptop cooling pad – The NotePal I300. Offering flavours across every conceivable notebook size, the I300 has a lot to live up to. Taking a look at Cooler Master ‘s website, it is astounding the amount of laptop coolers on display; from less than 12 € and greater than …