Cougar Spike Micro ATX Case
There are a lot of different sizes of PC cases available today. Some prefer huge rigs where they can pack everything possible into giant chassis, for others space saving designs are more attractive. The German company, Cougar is back with another option for gamers looking to put their components into a new micro-sized case. Enter the Spike which is a Micro ATX form factor light weight case. The Spike is Cougar's smallest case to date. We are going to see how the features and performance stack up on the Micro sized newcomer.
Wi Reader and Wi Reader Pro
Cloud storage and wireless networking are pretty much staples in everyone’s day to day lives at this point. Being so used to the constant stream of data can leave you feeling disconnected at times where you don’t have access and even simple data transfers can become a hassle. Carry Technology seek to lessen this burden with their Apotop DW09 Wi-Reader and DW17 Wi-Reader Pro designed for use with Apple and Android/Apple mobile devices respectively. Join me as I take a look at this pair of wireless cloud servers you can fit in your pocket and see if they deliver as promised.
Eagletech Neptor Foldable Bluetooth Keyboard
Eagletech may be one of best kept secrets at our LAN parties, generously providing many of their Zen headsets under the brand name Orion as prizes. As we saw at CES this past January, Eagletech has a wide variety of portable accessories, the majority utilizing Bluetooth, in store for 2013. We’ve received the first of many teased during a private showing in Vegas this winter, the Neptor Foldable Bluetooth Keyboard, just in time for an editor hungry to take productivity on the road.
Cooler Master Notepal Ergostand II
Over the past 10 years there has quietly been a small change in the mobile computer market that I don’t think everything has noticed. The name laptop has slowly been dropped and everyone uses the term notebook now. This might seem like a small change but this was actually to help prevent issues for a lot of manufactures. You see, with the name laptop, a lot of people would actually use them on their laps sometimes causing overheating issues. Even now with the new name, heat is still a concern. That is exactly why we have products like Cooler Masters new Notepal Ergostand II.Today I am going to take a look and see what has changed from the original.
BlackBerry Z10
Blackberry has a special place in my heart; my first smartphone was the original BlackBerry Storm. The Storm was their first full touch screen phone and frankly it was also a very hard phone to love. Being my first smartphone I really wanted to love it, but dealing with lockups, limitations, battery pulls, and bad battery life was just life with the Storm. After experiencing Android I never went back to BlackBerry, until they introduced their Z10. For the first time it seemed like BlackBerry had listened, so I made sure to get one in and today finally I will tell you how it went.
09/18/2012- Link aggregation can be a valuable option when it comes to getting the best performance out of your NAS. The average user won’t ever use the most of what a NAS has to offer, simply because their network isn’t fast enough to match the hardware performances from the NAS. Using only one gigabit LAN port limits the amount of data that can be put through your network. By consolidating multiple ports, you can easily increase your throughput.
Link Aggregation
To prove that link aggregation can really give you better results when it comes to throughput, we tested it ourselves. And testing link aggregation is not something new for Thecus®. The N16000 and N12000 were already put to the test; the results can be seen by following the link shown at the end of this article. Other articles regarding link aggregation can be found browsing through the press room from the Thecus® main website, simply type “Link Aggregation” in the search bar and then you can start learning more on this concept.
The machine
For our latest test, the N10850 from the Top Tower series was used. The available PCI-E slot was taken advantage of by adding an Intel® PRO/1000 PT dual port network card. The N10850 is equipped with an Intel® Xeon E3-1225 (3.1GHz) processor and 4GB of DDR3 memory. To create RAID 5, four WD VelociRaptor HDDs were used and the link aggregation mode was set to 802.3ad. This mode requires a switch which can also support 802.3ad. In theory, this LAG mode uses the bandwidth of all available similar ports and shares the transmission evenly.
The set-up
On the client side, 5 systems were used with Intel® Core 2 Duo processor or above, 4GB of memory, Intel or Realtek GbE NIC and Windows XP SP3 as the operating system. To perform the test, Netbench 7.0.3 was used. The Netbench software is oriented towards multiusers performances; therefore it was judge more appropriate as this is most likely to be the main purpose why link aggregation will be used for.
The results
As you can see, the results show significant improvements when aggregating only 2 ports. One thing that needs to be pointed here is that the results are expressed in megabit, not megabyte. A byte is 8 times bigger than a bit. So the actual throughput for 60 users using 2 ports is a staggering 239MB/S compared to 169MB/S with only one port. By simply combining two ports, enterprises can increase their productivity dramatically! Don’t lag behind, discover link aggregation.
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