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Lian Li Announces New Mini-ITX Chassis with a Curve-Shaped Design and Front Acrylic Window – PC-Q30
Show Off Your Rig’s Internal Architecture Lian-Li Industrial Co. Ltd, today announces a new brushed aluminum Mini-ITX chassis – PC-Q30. With its curve-shaped design and large acrylic front window the fully aluminum PC-Q...
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB SSD Review
Some companies just have a knack for making their way into my life. My home and offices are populated with plenty of Samsung tech; I have a Samsung microwave, LED TV, Soundbar, Galaxy S3, headphones, Color Laser Printer, 2 Sam...
C.O.D. Monster Server Build – 40TB
You probably have already read our Build Your Own NAS tutorial, but for us it isn't enough. We, at COD, like to push the limits and with that , we require MASSIVE amounts of storage (mostly for our rather large library of unco...
Lian Li Announces Two New Brushed Aluminum Mini-ITX Chassis: PC-Q27 and PC-Q28
Lian-Li Industrial Co. Ltd. today announces two new brushed aluminum Mini-ITX chassis: PC-Q27 and PC-Q28. These two compact cases feature Lian Li's new railing mount motherboard tray design, and allow for the Mini-ITX platform ...
Build a NAS for Affordable Storage – The Complete Guide
Having a ton of extra hard drives lying around doing nothing seems like a huge waste to me. In my efforts to put some of this storage to good use, I have been toying with the idea of building a NAS using standard hardware and o...
Should You Defrag Your SSD?
Hard Drive defragging has become routine for many of us. Through the years there have been a number of utilities that claimed to make accessing data quicker on your hard drives by placing it sequentially on your disk. We have...
QNAP TS-269 PRO NAS Review
It is so easy for us at C.O.D. to get carried away with storage solutions that are a bit over the top. Although there are a few of you out there that get excited about 6 bay and 8 bay NAS, the majority of people I know are mor...
XBMC & Microsoft, Together Forever
Today, at 6:09PM, in my inbox... was something crazy. I try to keep up with all things XBMC as it has always been jockeying for prime position in my home theater. Well, the news is... Microsoft and XBMC are now in bed togethe...
Drobo Introduces Plex for Drobo 5N
Drobo has finally started to add some apps to their networked appliances to make them more useful for media hungry enthusiasts. Along with a copy module, Drobo has incorporated Plex for their 5N. Although Drobo is still far b...
FinalWire Delivers AIDA64 v2.85 Update
FinalWire Ltd. today announced the immediate availability of AIDA64 Extreme Edition 2.85 software, a streamlined diagnostic and benchmarking tool for home users; and the immediate availability of AIDA64 Business Edition 2.85 so...









