The situation in the segment of external hard drives can nowadays be viewed twofold. On the one hand, the customers are able to choose the device according to all their requirements, as the range of HDD counts up hundreds of high-end and budgetary models. On the other hand, such wide spectrum of devices triggers violent competition among manufacturers which would like to win their customers by unique design or new developments in framework. Adata decided to win its customers by the unusual design, as well as unmatched durability and reliability. Thus, Adata DashDrive Durable HD710 series is distinguished by both, design and performance.



General Peculiarities and Layout


Adata HD710 is attributed to the protected external HDs which comply with the dust-, water-, and moisture protectability international standards. Those standards usually include a few dozens of sub-standards and research methods which allow the manufacturer to test their products in different conditions. …

Introduction


This time I’m working with one of the most fashionable and technologically strong devices. I’ll try to show you all the advantages of it and help you to decide whether it is worth of buying and further using, or not. So, today we are going to inspect and evaluаte the Fractal Design Meshify C chаssis. As you’ve alrеady understооd from its nаme, the Meshify C utilіzes the same bоdy as the Define C, but tаrgets a dіfferent user grоup and prіce sеgment. Let’s not waste our time and get down to our review. And the first and usual point of our review is Packaging and Contents.


Packaging and Contents


The first thіng we lооk at is pаckaging. You gеt your Fractal Design Meshify C in a sіmple cardbоard bоx with an imаge of the chаssis on frоnt and a blоw-up diаgram on the bаck. The compаny has also plаced anоther imаge of the cаse intеrior on the smаller pаnel. You’ll find a lіst of spеcificatiоns of the Meshify C …

Introduction


Manufacturers presented a fairly extensive range of motherboards on the Z370, including Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Ultra Gaming. The equipment at the motherboard is the simplest, but Gigabyte still equipped the Z370 AORUS Ultra Gaming very well.



The motherboard offers four DDR4 DIMM slots, three mechanical PCIe 3.0x16 slots and three PCIe 3.0x1 slots, six SATA 6 Gbps ports, two M.2 high-speed slots. There are also seven USB 3.1 Gen1 ports, six USB 2.0 and two USB 3.1 Gen2, so that the USB equipment is decent. Gigabyte installed a gigabit network interface and a good audio subsystem. Below we will take a closer look at Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Ultra Gaming.


Specifications


Socket — LGA 1151

Chipset — Intel Z370

Form Factor — ATX

Voltage Regulator — 10 Phases

Video Ports — DisplayPort 1.2, HDMI 1.4

USB Ports — 10Gbps: (1) Type-C, (1) Type A, 5Gb/s: (5) Type A

Network Jacks — (3) Gigabit Ethernet (1x PCIe share), (2) Wi-Fi Antenna
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