Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

Cooling: be quiet! Pure Loop 240mm AIO Review
Storage: XPG Atom 50 1TB Review, ADATA XPG Spectrix S20G 500GB M.2 NVMe SSD Review
Video: Eve Cam review: a simple and small HomeKit camera

Cooling:

Mad Shrimps: be quiet! Pure Loop 240mm AIO Review

Pure Loop 240mm is built from high-quality materials, is easy to install thanks to the provided instructions and provides an innovative pump design for eliminating noise and vibrations inside the case.

[M] [M] be quiet! Pure Loop 240mm AIO Review

Storage:

APH Networks: XPG Atom 50 1TB Review

"That is so unnecessary," my friend would say whenever she does not know how to respond. She would then follow up with another line, "You know what else is unnecessary? You." To be honest, after hearing it so many times, I still have no idea why saying "that is so unnecessary" is an appropriate response in pretty much every situation, and why asserting I am unnecessary is somehow considered a sassy comeback. However, when XPG sent along their latest NVMe PCIe 4.0-based budget SSD, the Atom 50 1TB, I cannot help but imagine some engineers sitting around the table product planning and talking like my friend. "This is so unnecessary. You know what else is unnecessary? DRAM." Just for background, SSD DRAM is used as a cache for writing data to the drive and storing a table that maps where each logical block address is physically located on the NAND flash memory. However, DRAM chips are not cheap even if you only need 1GB of DRAM per 1TB of storage, so budget SSDs often omit it to cut cost. Instead, DRAM-less SSDs store the mapping data on the NAND flash itself, which affects performance, as flash memory is orders of magnitudes slower than DRAM. To compensate, the NVMe interface supports something called the Host Memory Buffer, which allows the use of some of your computer's RAM to cache the mapping data. This is not as fast as an SSD having its own DRAM, but still much faster than the SSD's NAND flash memory. With recent improvements in controller design, caching algorithms, and interface speed, will the XPG Atom 50 1TB actually be a good performing NVMe PCIe 4.0-based budget drive to find DRAM so unnecessary as my friend would say? Read on to find out!

XPG Atom 50 1TB Review (Page 1 of 10) | APH Networks

NikKTech: ADATA XPG Spectrix S20G 500GB M.2 NVMe SSD Review

The XPG Spectrix S20G 500GB M.2 NVMe SSD by ADATA may not impress with its read and write performance numbers but thanks to its large RGB illuminated heatsink, 5-year warranty and tempting price tag it’s certainly worth checking out.

ADATA XPG Spectrix S20G 500GB M.2 NVMe SSD Review

Video:

9to5Mac: Eve Cam review: a simple and small HomeKit camera

The Eve Cam is a simple indoor camera for HomeKit and HomeKit Secure Video. By relying on HomeKit alone, there’s no extra subscription to pay for and no complicated third-party service to maintain. It (almost) all just works, all using Eve’s device and Apple’s apps and OS integrations. Read on for my full review. 

Eve Cam review: a simple and small HomeKit camera