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.



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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. …

Corsair, a multi-profile American company, starts shipping new high-end PSUs of HXi series. The series currently combines three models with a totally modular design and the employment of Japanese electrolytic capacitors. Corsair HXi 750 W, Corsair HXi 850 W and Corsair HXi 1000 W models are distinguished by the highest efficiency of 91% that results in the conferment of 80Plus Platinum certificate.



Corsair HXi power supply units demonstrate compatibility with Intel Core CPUs (4th generation) and AMD’s latest APUs. The triple totally corresponds to ATX standard of the latest version. Cooling of all internal components is realized due to a low-noise 140 mm fan, based on a fluid-film bearing. Moreover, the implementation of Zero-RPM Fan Mode enables the blades to rotate only on the load pickup.


The units are furnished with a large set of protection tools, saving the layout from off-nominal conditions: voltage overloading, power overloading, input voltage overloading, …

Zotac International, a well-known Hong Kong manufacturer continues to widen its ZBox series of mini PCs and introduces two samples of the different price spectrum – namely ZBox MI553 and ZBox PI225.



Possessing the 185 х 185 х 72 mm dimensions, the ZBox MI553 nettop is equipped with highly productive components like Intel Core i5 (Core i7) processing units built on the Kaby Lake architecture. Thus, one of the ZBox MI553 modifications will obtain a quad-core Intel Core i5-7300HQ (2.5/3.5 GHz) silicon with the Intel HD Graphics 630 embedded. The motherboard has two slots for the SO-DIMM DDR4 RAM of the ultimate 32 GB capacity.

The disk subsystem includes a 2.5” drive with the SATA 6 Gbps interface and a pair of M.2 connectors supporting Intel Optane Memory devices. Among other options one can find a Thunderbolt 3, an HDMI, a DisplayPort and four USB 3.1 Gen2 ports. Networking is enabled by the RJ45 wired interface, as well as by the wireless Wi-Fi 802.11ac and Bluetooth …