Here a roundup of todays reviews and articles:

AOC U3477PQU 34 inch 3440x1440 IPS Review
Fire and Water: The ioSafe 214 NAS review
ROSA Desktop Fresh R4 KDE Review
Synology DiskStation DS415play

AOC U3477PQU 34 inch 3440x1440 IPS Review

If you are building a new system for 2015 then the latest breed of ‘UltraWide’ monitors might already be on your radar. With this in mind today we look at the AOC U3477PQU UltraWide WQHD which features a 3440×1440 resolution. This is an IPS panel with a 5ms GTG refresh and D-SUB, DVI-D, HDMI and Displayport connectivity. Should this be making your shortlist?

Read full article @ KitGuru

Fire and Water: The ioSafe 214 NAS review

ioSafe claims to make a NAS device that protects your data from fire and water. Not backing down, we try our best to break it. Watch us burn and flood it to see how if your data is as safe as they say

Read full article @ Neowin

ROSA Desktop Fresh R4 KDE Review

ROSA Desktop Fresh R4 is the latest edition of the bleeding-edge edition of ROSA Desktop, a Linux desktop distribution from ROSA Laboratory, a Linux software solutions provider based in Moscow, Russia. For new users, it is one of the better designed KDE desktop distributions, with a few features you wont find on mainstream KDE desktops.

Read full article @ LinuxBSDos.com

Synology DiskStation DS415play

Today we are checking out the Synology DS415play, a purpose built NAS designed for home multimedia applications. This is Synology’s second generation ‘play’ device and the first 4-bay model. The key feature of this NAS is dedicated hardware acceleration, specifically for video transcoding which is provided by the Intel Atom CE5335 SoC...

Late last year on October 21st 2013, Synology announced its first ever media-centric DiskStation, the DS214play. What this meant was that the DS214play was the first Synology product to feature dedicated hardware acceleration, specifically for video transcoding. The DS214play could simultaneously stream multiple 1080p videos, and was still able to handle a variety of additional processor-heavy tasks.

Powering the DS214play is an Intel Atom "Berryville" (32 nm) dual-core SoC (System-on-Chip) processor which is Intel’s latest embedded media processor. This wasn’t the first time we had seen a NAS device powered by this particular Atom SoC, as Asustor beat Synology to the punch with their AS-304T model, complete with HDMI out.

Read full article @ Legion Hardware