Western Digital, a successful supplier of HDD solutions and other consumer electronics, has started the delivery of its new compact hard drives series. Codenamed WD Green, this series boasts the maximal volume capacity (2 TB) in the 2.5-inch HDD market sector. The company claims that WD Green is a perfect match for PCs that require efficient additional storage disks, for external hard drives, as well as, for devices requiring practically enormous volume facilities. At the same time, WD Green is capable to ensure low working temperatures and noiseless operation.



One of the major peculiarities and attraction of WD Green series is its power-saving and eco-friendly nature. First of all, all the models embraced by the series consume little power as in operational mode, so on the startup activity. This provides for the substantial decrease of the system loading. Secondly, the production process is conducted with the observance of all existing ecological regulations. Hence, these HDDs …

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Nowadays Asus has the widest range of consumer electronics. In the catalog of its products you can find motherboards and video cards, as well as smartphones, laptops and smart watches. In the group of traditional desktops, it presents several series of solutions of various formats, the same as monoblocks. The most powerful products focused on the game segment are ROG (Republic Of Gamers), which features both: a classic-format and compact devices.


VivoPC and VivoMini series solutions are available for home-office applications. Moreover, the first ones are in the format of the tower and mini-tower, as well as compact form factors, such as the recently considered VivoPC VM60.


The representatives of VivoMini series boast of features such as Intel Core i7 processors, DDR4 memory, vPro technology, 802.11ac wireless controller, and up to four 2.5" storage drives. In this review, we will get acquainted with the VivoMini VC65R.

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The Xigmatek company introduces the Glare 7A PC case, intended for assembling gaming desktops, based on the ATX, Micro-ATX and Mini-ITX motherboards.



The specialty is performed in the Mid Tower form factor with such dimensions: 495 × 452 × 200 mm. One of its side panels is made of acrylic material, providing the full sight of inner system components. On the front one can see a tempered glass panel.


The Xigmatek framework allows mounting of seven expansion cards. The maximum length of discrete graphics accelerators equals 390 mm.


This chassis is equipped with four 120 mm fans (3 on the front and 1 at the rear) featuring red LED illumination. Besides, at the top it’s possible to locate three 120 mm or two 140 mm coolers. If using the liquid cooling system one may involve 120, 240, 280 or 360 mm heatsinks. The height of the CPU cooler is not to overcome 160 mm.


Glare 7A is ready to house two 2.5”/3.5” drives, as well as four 2.5” devices. Connectivity …