Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

Creative Labs iRoar Bluetooth Speaker Review
Gigabyte XM300
OCZ RD400 NVMe SSD Review
Toshiba announces the OCZ RD400 NVMe SSD Series
Toshiba OCZ RD400 M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD Review
Toshiba OCZ RD400 NVMe PCIe SSD 512GB Review
Toshiba OCZ RD400 PCIe (M.2. NVMe) 512GB SSD Review
Toshiba OCZ RD400 Series High-Performance NVMe SSD Review
Tt eSPORTS LEVEL 10 M Advanced Review
Windows smartphone market share dips below one per cent
Xilence Performance A+ PSU range updated

Creative Labs iRoar Bluetooth Speaker Review

For most of us purchasing a Bluetooth speaker can be a bit of a chore. They all seem to trade sound quality for portability with no real regard for sound quality. Creative is about to change all that with their new iRoar speaker. The iRoar is the successor to the popular Sound Blaster Roar series of speakers but improves on the Roar series in almost every way.

Creative’s team calls the iRoar “The Most Intelligent Speaker on The Planet”. That’s a pretty bold statement to make about a Bluetooth speaker. Let’s see just how well the Creative iRoar lives up to the challenge.

Read full article @ Hardware Asylum

Gigabyte XM300

The XM300 is Gigabyte's take on an RGB gaming mouse. It keeps the low price point Gigabyte's other mice have, but offers very impressive specifications with Omron switches, an optical sensor, and, of course, RGB lighting, a steal for just 40 bucks.

Read full article @ techPowerUp

OCZ RD400 NVMe SSD Review

Toshiba's OCZ division steals the NVMe spotlight with a very high performance M.2 SSD that aims to take the throne from Intel and Samsung. The new drive is a fire breather when pushed to the limits.

Read full article @ Toms Hardware

Toshiba announces the OCZ RD400 NVMe SSD Series

Available in compact M.2 and adapter card form factors with capacities from 128GB to 1TB. Toshiba has released a competitor into the high performance consumer SSD space. It has launched the OCZ RD400 NVMe SSD Series in capacities ranging from 128GB to 1TB, with immediate availability across Europe and North America. The drive is in the M.2. form factor but Toshiba offers an optional PCIe x4 M.2 adapter cards for those of us with motherboards lacking the requisite slots. Headline performance figures published by Toshiba claim sequential read/write up to 2,600/1,600MB/s and random read/write (4kib): up to 210,000/140,000 IOPS.

Read full article @ Hexus

Toshiba OCZ RD400 M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD Review

The Toshiba XG3 family of client NVMe M.2 PCIe SSDs were quietly launched back in August 2015. The Toshiba XG3 1TB drive just happened to be the highest capacity M.2 2280 drive available on the market and was optimized for high performance PCs. The drive has been found to be pretty damn fast and many found it capable of rivaling the Samsung SSD 950 Pro series, but good luck finding one to buy as it is OEM market though as notebook makers like MSI have been using it. Today, Toshiba OCZ released the RD400 series that will be widely available on the consumer market and has specifications that will rival the Samsung SSD 950 PRO...

Read full article @ Legit Reviews

Toshiba OCZ RD400 NVMe PCIe SSD 512GB Review

The RD400 is the first Toshiba-OCZ branded SSD to hit the market and is also Toshiba’s first NVMe PCIe consumer drive. The flagship 1TB model has another claim to fame as the first 1TB class NVMe M.2 drive aimed at the consumer space.

Read full article @ KitGuru

Toshiba OCZ RD400 PCIe (M.2. NVMe) 512GB SSD Review

We review the new Toshiba OCZ RD400 PCIe NVME SSD. The product in it's core really is an M.2. SSD placed on a PCIe daughter board. So if you have a properly fast M.2. slot (with four PCIe Gen 3.0 lanes tied to it), you might as well use that one as Toshiba will release these SSDs with and without the PCIe daughter card. Once in use, you do get an amazingly fast storage unit producing breathtaking numbers. We have been closing in at 3 GB/sec read speeds whereas 1.5 GB/sec writes can be considered something normal. Priced aggressively Toshiba seems to have the something special in their hands, and it's all about NVMe. NVMe - is an abbreviation for NVM Express, NVMe, or Non-Volatile Memory Host Controller Interface Specification (NVMHCI) and boils down to the specification for accessing solid-state drives (SSDs) attached through the PCI Express (PCIe) bus. "NVM" is an acronym for non-volatile memory, which is used in SSDs. As a logical device interface, SATA3 might not have been long among us, but the performance of NAND based storage is growing much faster compared to the adoption of SATA ports. Your free PCIe lanes as such are a really fast alternative as it is an interface with much more available bandwidth.

Read full article @ Guru3D

Toshiba OCZ RD400 Series High-Performance NVMe SSD Review

Toshiba OCZ is at the ready with a brand new NVMe solid state drive, targeted squarely at the high-performance enthusiast computing market. We first caught a glimpse of the drive we’re going to be showing you here today, the OCZ RD400, back at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. OCZ had the drive on display – branded the RevoDrive 400 at the time – blazing through some benchmarks at over 2.6GB/s.

It took a bit of tweaking and fine tuning to get the drive ready for market, but it’s here now, and as you’ll see on the pages ahead, the RD400 was worth the wait...

Read full article @ HotHardware

Tt eSPORTS LEVEL 10 M Advanced Review

The Level 10M gaming mouse from Tt eSPORTS when it was first announced, was praised for its top quality construction and design. Taking steps from there to improve upon that, Tt eSPORTS have redesigned the baseplate of the L10 M Advanced for comfort and while doing so have been able to make it lighter than the original. At its core is the AVAGO 9800 sensor backed by a 32bit ARM MCU to keep things under control.

Under the hood, Tt eSPORTS have supplied 256Kb on-board memory specifically for storing 5 profiles and their custom settings and we see the return of various features from the original mouse. This includes the 'aerodynamic' shape and honeycomb ventilation that provides cooling for your palm, as well as the 2D steering AKA height/angle adjustment system. To wrap it up the advanced matte coating is a blend of rigid/soft feel textures that is said to strike a perfect balance between comfort and grip, and of course as it is 2016 we see 16.8M RGB lighting.

Read full article @ Vortez

Windows smartphone market share dips below one per cent

Q1 2016 worldwide sales; Android 84pc, iOS 15pc, Windows 0.7pc, Blackberry 0.2pc. Research firm Gartner has published figures for worldwide smartphone sales during Q1 2016. Readers probably won't be surprised at the smartphone platform and brand pecking orders but the extent to which the Windows Phone platform has dropped since last year is rather catastrophic.

Starting by looking at the big picture, in Q1 2016 there were a total of 349 million smartphones sold worldwide. That's nearly 4 per cent better than a year ago when 336 million were sold during the same quarter. As usual, there's been movement in the market shares of the leading smartphone making firms and the respective platforms moved too.

Read full article @ Hexus

Xilence Performance A+ PSU range updated

New low noise, high efficiency, PSUs are available immediately. German-Chinese manufacturer of chassis, PSUs, fans and coolers, Xilence has updated its Performance A+ Series of PSUs. Touting immediate availability, the new revision promises low noise levels, stability, and high efficiency and a wide range of electrical protection mechanisms. These look to be captive cable power supply units with the cables fitted varying by their wattage ratings.

Read full article @ Hexus