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Building a fanless PC is now realistic. But it still ain't cheap

Here's a few pointers if you wanted to get cracking
Personal Tech26 Feb 2016 | 103

Eight budget-friendly 1TB SSD data packers for real people

There, there... personal storage, no pain
Storage21 Jan 2016 | 47

Brimming with VM goodness: Qnap TS-453mini 4-bay NAS

Review Diminutive do-it-all Celeron storehouse
Personal Tech18 Sep 2015 | 42

Storage boosters: Six mSATA format SSDs on test

Product Round-up Back-to-school hand-me-down upgrade time
Storage28 Aug 2015 | 12

All aboard the Skylake: How Intel stopped worrying and learned to love overclocking

Review 6th gen CPU and swanky Asus mobo on test
Personal Tech21 Aug 2015 | 35

Assessing the power of Intel’s SSD 750 … but check your motherboard before buying

Review Solid state-of-the-art 2.4GB/s consumer storage
Software03 Aug 2015 | 32

It's enough to get your back up: Eight dual-bay SOHO NAS boxes

Product Round-Up Desirable data doublers for home or office
Personal Tech02 Aug 2015 | 61

Speed freak: Kingston HyperX Predator 480GB PCIe SSD

Review Flash vendor's fastest drive ever
Personal Tech28 Jul 2015 | 30

Thinking of adding an SSD for SUPREME speed? Read this

Feature The fast and curious world of PCIe Flash
Storage10 Jul 2015 | 40

Kingston offers up its fastest SATA SSD: HyperX Savage 240GB

Review Toughing it out against brutal competition
Storage06 Jul 2015 | 11

Pint-sized PCIe powerhouse: Intel NUC5i5RYK

Review Fed with the hottest chips, just how fast can the little fellah go?
Personal Tech23 Jun 2015 | 80

Business or pleasure? Crucial MX200 and BX100 1TB SSDs

Review Take your pick, and don't worry about the price tag
On-Prem12 May 2015 | 17

Exercising with chocolate: Festival and tours galore

Gorge your way to fitness this weekend
Bootnotes28 Mar 2015 | 11

An uncomplicated Buffalo in SOHO: The LinkStation 441D 4-bay NAS box

Review Cheap at twice the price
Virtualization10 Mar 2015 | 10

Thecus N4310 4-bay: A NAS-ty beast for the budget-conscious

Review Self storage for the light of pocket
Storage16 Feb 2015 | 52

Samsung's 850 EVO 1TB SSD appears live ... in 3D

Review Enterprise tech for the rest of us
Personal Tech19 Jan 2015 | 14

Eight pocket-pleasing USB 3.0 hard drives

Product Roundup Got a new laptop? Get your back up
Storage09 Jan 2015 | 28

Sink your teeth into OCZ's ARC 100 SSD sizzler with tasty home-grown chips

Review Troubled tech Toshiba takeover turnaround?
Storage08 Dec 2014 | 24

You get what you pay for: Kingston's SSDNow V310 960GB whopper

Review Enterprise-worthy TBW stats ... with price tag to match
Personal Tech21 Oct 2014 | 19

Top 10 SSDs: Price, performance and capacity

Product round-up Time to consider the solid option?
Personal Tech03 Oct 2014 | 50

SanDisk Extreme Pro SSD – courting speed freaks and gamers

Review 10-year warranties are the new black
Storage22 Sep 2014 | 29

A SCORCHIO fatboy SSD: Samsung SSD850 PRO 3D V-NAND

Review 4Gb/s speeds on a consumer drive, anyone?
Personal Tech16 Sep 2014 | 46

We lift the lid on Intel's Pro 2500 SSD. Shock, horror: It doesn't use its own NAND chips

Review Encryption and toolkit tinkering for all
Storage10 Sep 2014 | 8

On test: Samsung 845DC EVO 3-bit Toggle MLC and 845DC PRO 3D V-NAND SSDs

Review Designer storage for enterprise and data centre
Storage11 Aug 2014 | 12

Overclocking to 5GHz? We put Intel Devil’s Canyon CPU to the test

Review Haswell refresh that's hot to trot
Personal Tech30 Jun 2014 | 41

Crucial MX100 256GB SSD: Cut-throat competition in flash land

Review Keenly priced sweet-spot storage
Personal Tech17 Jun 2014 | 31

Asus Z97-A puts Intel's 9 Series chipset through its paces

Review Revamped mobo finds its inner mojo
Personal Tech27 May 2014 | 13

It's GOOD to get RAIN on your upgrade parade: Crucial M550 1TB SSD

Review Performance tweaks and power savings – what's not to like?
Storage23 Apr 2014 | 12

We test Intel's 730 480GB SSD Skulltrail scorcher

Review Enterprise grade storage for all?
Storage03 Mar 2014 | 20

WD My Cloud EX4 four-bay NAS

Review Personal cloud, professional style
Storage13 Feb 2014 | 59

KingSpec's 2TB Multicore PCI-E SSD whopper vs the rest

Review Scorching speeds shootout, if you've money to burn
Storage06 Aug 2013 | 27

Review: Crucial M500 960GB SSD

A consumer-friendly drive with class-leading tech, capacity
Personal Tech08 May 2013 | 26

Cache 'n' carry: What's the best config for your SSD?

Feature How to gain solid-state performance with out losing hard drive capacity
Personal Tech12 Feb 2013 | 40

Review: Intel 335 240GB SSD

New NAND tech tweak treat
Personal Tech29 Jan 2013 | 29

Thunderbolt interface strikes YOUR PC: What's the damage?

10Gbps, you say? Now for the reality check
Storage02 Jan 2013 | 63

Samsung SSD 840 series storage review

MLC for business and TLC for pleasure
Personal Tech26 Nov 2012 | 31

Plextor M5 Pro 256GB SSD review

Modern Marvell
Personal Tech31 Oct 2012 | 12

Crucial v4 256GB budget SSD review

SATA 2 and proud of it
Personal Tech05 Sep 2012 | 23

Ivy Bridge for Ultrabooks

Inside Intel's premium portables
Personal Tech20 Aug 2012 | 22

Intel 330 120GB SSD review

Mainstream makeover must-have?
Personal Tech08 Aug 2012 | 9

OCZ Vertex 4 256GB SSD review

Homegrown hot shot
Personal Tech26 Jul 2012 | 27

Choose Smarter: Ten…portable optical drives

Product Round-up The art of spin
Personal Tech26 Jul 2012 | 1

AMD and Intel mainstream desktop CPUs

Review Cheap as chips?
Personal Tech28 Jun 2012 | 41

Choose Smarter: Ten... Sata 3 SSDs

Product Round-up Solid choices for an essential upgrade
Personal Tech22 Jun 2012 | 1

Choose Smarter: Ten… USB 3.0 External Hard Drives

Product Round-up Big storage
Personal Tech22 Jun 2012 | 7

Choose Smarter: Ten… Class 10 SDHC Cards

Product Round-up Sharp cards
Personal Tech21 Jun 2012 | 3

Ten... Sata 3 SSDs

Product Round-up Solid choices for that essential upgrade
Personal Tech09 Jun 2012 | 53

AMD and Nvidia extreme GPUs workout

Extreme PC Week Visual feast
Personal Tech07 Jun 2012 | 16

AMD and Intel extreme desktop CPU workout

Extreme PC Week Feel the burn
Personal Tech06 Jun 2012 | 28

OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 240GB PCI-E SSD

Review So long, SATA
Personal Tech05 Jun 2012 | 29

Intel Ivy Bridge Core i7-3770K quad-core CPU

Review The generation game
Personal Tech08 May 2012 | 20

WTF is... Intel's Ivy Bridge

Feature Inside Core i's third generation
Personal Tech08 May 2012 | 16

Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook

Review Airs and graces
Personal Tech01 May 2012 | 61

Samsung Series 3 NP300E5A 15in notebook

Review Computing for the cost-conscious
Personal Tech21 Mar 2012 | 30

SanDisk Extreme 120GB SSD

Review Sata 3 Sandforce speedster
Personal Tech13 Mar 2012 | 13

Intel 520 240GB SSD

Review Sandforce inside
Personal Tech15 Feb 2012 | 16

Eurocom Panther 2.0 Core i7, SLI notebook

Review Just what does a £5k laptop get you these days?
Personal Tech27 Jan 2012 | 31

HP Pavilion dv6 15.6in quad-core notebook

Review Llano laptop, anyone?
Personal Tech10 Jan 2012 | 16

Samsung SSD 830

Review Sata 3 scorcher
Personal Tech06 Jan 2012 | 20

Acer TravelMate Timeline X TM8481T 14in Core i5 notebook

Review Endurance over performance?
Personal Tech14 Dec 2011 | 11

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