Why I bought a 16TB HDD instead of an 8TB SSD
Rich Edmonds May 28, 2026, 9:30 AM EDT Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building…
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Valve already lost me on the Steam Machine, and now I don't even know who it's actually for
…An MBA in Marketing and the owner of a PC building business, he writes on PC hardware, technology, and Windows. When not scouring the web for ideas, he can be found building…
High availability doesn't require matching servers — my three different mini PCs proved it works anyway
…That sounds obvious, but it matters when you’re building from second-hand mini PCs instead of a shopping cart full of matching machines. The cluster doesn’t care that one node…
My $3000 Windows PC felt broken until I disabled these 4 things
…Startup apps were quietly killing responsiveness The slowdown starts at boot If you’ve invested good money building a Windows PC, waiting 2–3 minutes for it to boot feels like a…
That BIOS performance tweak is probably making your PC feel worse, not better
…Tinkering with his own build at age 10 turned into building PCs for friends and family, fostering a passion that would ultimately take shape as a career path. Besides being the first…
I ran Cyberpunk 2077 inside a Proxmox VM on a mini PC, and it actually worked
…I wasn’t borrowing a desktop GPU or building around some giant tower with spare headroom everywhere. This was a mini PC doing double duty as a home lab host and, when…
3 Docker containers that turned my $80 used mini PC into a complete home office server
…Sign in to your XDA account With home servers being as popular as they are, a while back I invested in a mini PC for a new build out for my home…
The biggest performance problem in modern gaming PCs often hides behind "good averages"
…An MBA in Marketing and the owner of a PC building business, he writes on PC hardware, technology, and Windows. When not scouring the web for ideas, he can be found building…
Four NVMe slots changed how I think about home lab storage, and a $170 mini PC made it click
…GMKtec Nucbox G9 Mini PC CPU Intel Mobile CPU Memory 12GB This tiny mini PC packs four NVMe sockets for your home lab storage needs. $230 at Amazon
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