Category Archives: Technology

TerraMaster D5-300 Raid Direct Attached Storage review

Terra Master’s D5-300 offers users a USB RAID storage system for up to five drives. I take a look.

RAID, Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks, is a data storage virtualisation technology that has been around for decades. Whilst the term was first coined in the 1980s, some aspects of the technology originated in the 1970s. Continue reading TerraMaster D5-300 Raid Direct Attached Storage review

Toshiba Canvio Gaming Portable Storage review

Dynabook’s Toshiba Canvio Gaming Portable Storage hard drive may offer a solution to a problem that new console owners didn’t know they had.

Whenever I start talking about data storage the first thing I always say is that you can never have enough. It’s not me just repeating myself, it’s because it is the absolute truth. Continue reading Toshiba Canvio Gaming Portable Storage review

D-Link COVR AX AX1800 Dual Band Mesh WiFi 6 System review

We check out D-Link’s COVR-X1873 three-unit mesh WiFi 6 System.

WiFi 6 is the next big thing in wireless networking for the home. Having ditched the previous convoluted designations that were a mixture of numbers and letters, we the consumer can easily understand that the bigger the number the better the thing is. Who would know that 802.11ax is better than 802.11ac? We do, now that the Wi-Fi Alliance has renamed 802.11ax WiFi 6. Continue reading D-Link COVR AX AX1800 Dual Band Mesh WiFi 6 System review

SOUNDBOKS Gen 3 Bluetooth Performance Speaker review

With an outdoor party speaker sure to get your neighbours calling the cops, SOUNDBOKS turns the volume all the way up to eleven.

Designed in Denmark, I’m guessing the Soundboks Bluetooth Performance Speaker cut its teeth on Scandinavian death metal. Cranking the volume all the way up bought tears to my eyes, but likely evoked a different emotional response from others within a 1KM radius. Continue reading SOUNDBOKS Gen 3 Bluetooth Performance Speaker review