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Last year somewhere I went back to my ancient forum of Neoseeker. It wasn't really any fun and it's just like, 10 people across the whole site and half of them are only in the DBZ forum. I followed up on one of my old friends and I did get in contact with them after a long silence, from when I reached out to when they replied. They expressed they didn't know any trans people and was kind enough in their last message, but I can't help but feel they don't really want anything to do with me. It's been ever so silent. Maybe it's just the long time skip. A lifetime has happened, to both of us. Anyway, back then I changed my little bio on Neoseeker together with changing my pfp to the female knight from tactics where I used to have the male one a decade or 2 ago. Should anyone ever want to find me, they can again now.
MOVO Microphones Roundup Review - Movo VXR10-PRO Supercardioid Shotgun Microphone
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MOVO Microphones Roundup Review - Movo VXR10-PRO Supercardioid Shotgun Microphone
Introduction:
We have a selection of microphones from Movo on the review bench today. A quick online search revealed that the Los Angeles-based company has an impressive portfolio of audio, video, and photography products to satisfy all budgets and needs. Movo seems to be focused on photographers, vloggers, filmmakers, journalists, podcasters, and small business owners. The company is also involved with the creative community and focuses on crafting products that empower creators of all levels.
Movo believes that “the world is filled with artists, innovators and creative minds whose voices need to be heard – sans background noise or blurry shots – and that everyone should have access to high quality products at accessible prices”. Sounds awesome on paper, but do the Movo microphones actually sound that good in reality?
Movo VXR10-PRO Supercardioid Shotgun Microphone: Closer look
Starting with the most affordable of the lot, the VXR10-PRO is a $49.95 USD supercardioid shotgun microphone that focuses on portability. It comes in a Movo branded packaging that we will see a lot of in the next pages. The box shows a magnified picture of the microphone paired with a red Rycote Lyre shock mount. While the outer layer is nothing to write home about, it’s what’s inside that makes Movo’s products stand out. The VXR10-PRO comes in a black hard-shell carrying case of excellent quality. A nice little touch that adds actual value. The box doesn’t mention the major features including the 20Hz-18KHz frequency response, -36dB sensitivity, and 78dB signal to noise ratio. It would be also good to know that no batteries are needed since the mic is powered by the device that it connects to.
The carrying case has a dense foam insert that holds the microphone, the shock mount, and a grey fluffy windscreen. The zipper section holds some paperwork, 3.5mm to TRS adapter (for cameras), and 3.5mm to TRRS adapter (for smartphones). The included adapters make the VXR10-PRO compatible with a broad selection of devices including tablets, smartphones, laptops, cameras, and video recorders. Recent iPhones and Android phones will require an extra adapter however, since most manufacturers ditched the 3.5mm jack for a number of years now, especially on the high-end devices.
The VXR10-PRO supercardioid shotgun microphone has a small footprint in terms of size and weight. Removing the foam windscreen reveals the cylindrical shape of the device which measures 26mm x 100mm (1″ x 3.9″). Weighing a measly 60g (2.1oz), the VXR10-PRO is easy to handle and doesn’t have the awkwardness of larger shotgun microphones.
The build quality of the Movo VXR10-PRO is top notch. The microphone body has a seamless design and looks to be made of aluminum with a high-quality black finish. The review sample I received was perfectly put together with no rattling or loose components inside. The top and side grills are also metallic. The base of the microphone offers two 3.5mm connections, a line out and a headphone jack. This allows users to connect the microphone to their device, while being able to monitor the recording in real time and adjust accordingly.
Movo VXR10-PRO Supercardioid Shotgun Microphone: Performance & Conclusion
Movo positions the VXR10-PRO as a professional grade video microphone capable of recording high-quality audio. During my testing, I found that this little shotgun mic is very capable for its price. It’s definitely leagues ahead of the integrated mics found in your average cameras, smartphones, and tablets. The sound was clear, and the mic did a great job at capturing the target. There was a bit of ambient noise in the recordings, especially in loud outside areas, despite the boxes claims of max noise reduction. This is to be expected however, since the mic is essentially plug and play and doesn’t offer any built-in settings.
The included accessories add tremendous value to this little mic, making it a viable option for different recording situations. On top of the great sound quality, the VXR10-PRO offers excellent craftsmanship in a small form factor. Movo also included a comprehensive accessories bundle, making this little shotgun microphone extremely versatile while staying user-friendly.
At the time of writing, it can be found through the usual channels for $50. Overall, the Movo VXR10-PRO supercardioid shotgun microphone is a great buy for any basic audio and video recording setups.
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TerraMaster D2 Clone Review - TerraMaster D2 Clone Review
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TerraMaster D2 Clone Review - TerraMaster D2 Clone Review
TerraMaster D2 Clone: Introduction
The TerraMaster D2 Clone is a hard drive duplicator capable of mounting two independent 2.5in SSD or 3.5in HDD storage drives, allowing users to clone from one drive to another of equal or greater capacity. This peripheral has an MSRP of $119.99 USD.
The D2 Clone uses a USB 3.1 Type-C connection to your PC, plus no drivers are necessary. For cloning you don’t even need a PC or any other device, just the D2 Clone itself and two drives. Simply press the power button a couple times on D2 Cloner and wait while the peripheral does its job. The indicator lights tell you the status of the storage drives, displaying the completion percentage of the cloning process.
TerraMaster D2 Clone: Closer Look
The TerraMaster D2 Clone is rated for up to 550MB/sec for SSD cloning, and up to 200MB/sec for HDD cloning. Drive capacities of up to 18TB are supported for up to a combined 36TB maximum total capacity, but this model only supports SINGLE disk mode so you really get two 18TB storage options. The packaging is similar to other TerraMaster products we’ve seen, only beige instead of the standard blue. A sticker on the side panel provides a description of the product contained within. Foam adequately protects the D2 Clone inside the packaging, with all of the other contents in another small cardboard box.
The D2 Cloner looks like it uses the same housing as the F2-422 I reviewed back in October 2020, except with a different front and rear panel equipped. The front panel has eight LEDs for its readout, and the HDD LEDs will turn green or orange depending on drive health and status. The power button also serves to operate the cloning procedure: double clicking will get the process started, but cloning isn’t executed until you click it a third time within 10 seconds of the double click. After 10 seconds, it aborts the cloning procedure attempt if you don’t click again.
You’ll need to use Bay 1 for the source drive, and Bay 2 for the drive being cloned to. All data on drive 2 will be lost after cloning, so keep that in mind! You don’t have to worry about formatting the second drive beforehand, as the D2 Clone will handle all preparations! If you choose to clone to a storage drive with a greater capacity, the extra capacity will be unassigned so you can later assign it or extend the storage of cloned partition in your OS.
At the bottom of the D2 Clone are ventilation slots, with rubber feet to add clearance. The housing is a sturdy metal design with a nice textured surface, and TerraMaster logos on both sides. The drive holders are plastic and have multiple screw holes for both 2.5in and 3.5in drives.
The circuitry of the D2 Clone is a lot simpler than that of the F2-422 or F5-221 that I looked at recently, which makes sense. The D2 Clone only offers USB connectivity, and acting as a USB host is a lot less intensive than serving or streaming media as a NAS! An ASMedia ASM1156 chipset is the heart of the operation here, providing both the cloning capabilities, SMART drive monitoring, fan control, and USB to SATA host conversion. It can also support JBOD, but TerraMaster hasn’t elected to add that as a feature here.
TerraMaster D2 Clone: Testing
Testing and using the TerraMaster D2 Clone is extremly easy and straightforward! I first set out to clone a Windows 10 240GB SSD to a 1TB SSD, an upgrade that would seem desirable and likely for most users, thanks in part to the dropping cost per gigabyte of SSD technology. My SSD had roughly 140GB of data on it out of the 240GB capacity (closer to 223GB when formatted), and it took 38 minutes for the D2 Clone to perform an exact clone to the 1TB SSD! That equates to around 3.7 GB/minute or 491.2 Mbit/s — or 61.4 MB/s, but that includes drive formatting time so the actual rate was likely higher.
After cloning was complete, I had to disconnect the old drive because Windows doesn’t like it when two drives have the same disk signature. After I removed the old drive, I was able to mount the new 1TB SSD through the D2 Clone which can serve as a USB storage device for one or two drives (with different signatures). I then tested the transfer rates to the 1TB SSD, and getting mid-400s MB/s read and write was a nice surprise. I didn’t optimize the test run because I wanted to see how well the D2 Clone would work in a typical environment, and I wasn’t disappointed!
TerraMaster D2 Clone: Specifications
Storage
Disk Slot Number
2
Compatible Disk Types
3.5″ SATA HDD
2.5″ SATA HDD
2.5″ SATA SSD
File System
FAT 32, FAT 16, NTFS, and EXT4
Maximum Internal Raw Capacity
36TB (18 TB drive x 2)
RAIDs Supported
SINGLE DISK
Drive Hot Swap
√
HDD Sleep
√
External Ports
USB
USB3.1 Type-C gen1 x 1
Power Socket
DC IN 12V
Reading/writing Speed (max.)
Reading Speed (max.)
Read：390MB/s
Writing Speed (max.)
Write：420MB/s
Appearance
Size (H*W*D)
227 x 119 x 133 mm
Packaging Size (H*W*D)
258 x 220 x 170 mm
Weight
Net Weight: 1.3Kg Gross Weight: 2.4Kg
Power Supply
Power Supply
40W
AC Input Voltage
100V – 240V AC
Current Frequency
50/60 Hz, single frequency
Environmentals
Working Temperature
5°C ~ 40°C (40°F ~ 104°F)
Storage Temperature
-20°C ~ 60°C (-5°F ~ 140°F)
Relative Humidity
5% ~ 95% RH
Supported OS
Windows OS、Mac OS
Warranty
2 years
Certificate
CE, FCC, CCC, KC
Environment
RoHS, WEEE
Package Contents:
Host unit (x1) Power cord (x1) USB Cable A to Type-C(10Gb) (x1) Quick Installation Guide (x1) Power adapter (x1) Screws (several) Limited Warranty Note x 1
Information Courtesy of TerraMaster @ https://www.terra-master.com/us/products/d2-clone.html
TerraMaster D2 Clone: Conclusion
Don’t be fooled by the name, the D2 Clone is also very capable as a Direct Attached Storage host! It easily provides access for up to two separate SATA storage drives over high speed USB 3.1, all without software. Cloning drives is also done without software, and the process really is as easy as a few clicks of a button. All of those great features for the low MSRP of $119.99 USD.
The TerraMaster D2 Clone comes with everything you need to get started right out of the box. It has plenty of screws for both 2.5in and 3.5in storage devices, a USB 3.1 Gen1 Type-A to Type-C cable, a power adapter, drive labels, and a nice handy screwdriver! The only minor inconvenience I could find worth mentioning is that having to use screws to mount both the drives makes swapping drives slightly tedious. A tool free drive bay would be even more convenient, but likely would have added to the cost. Using screws for mounting is natural for most 2+ drive storage options, and you’ll only notice this if you swap drives a lot! If you rarely clone multiple drives or don’t plan on changing drives often for DAS you won’t even notice.
Cloning drives was very straight forward — put the drive you want to clone in bay 1, the drive with equal or greater capacity to be cloned to in bay 2, power on the D2 Clone, double tap power to start the cloning process, and tap it once more to confirm you want to start cloning. Then sit back and relax while the D2 Clone does all the work, you don’t even have to format or delete anything at all! No drivers are needed for cloning or USB storage, and my devices immediately recognized the D2 Clone and the installed drives! One caveat I didn’t see mentioned is that after cloning is complete, some systems will only display one drive because both drives will have the same exact disk signatures. You can change the second drives’ disk signature if you need to access both at the same time, or just unplug one or the other to switch between them.
The D2 Clone worked great a Direct Attached Storage host! I would recommend it readily to anyone looking for such functionality, with the added bonus of the cloning capability. For the price the D2 Clone is very competitive with the D2-310 which has an MSRP of $159.99 USD, which lacks cloning capabilities but can do RAID 0/1/JBOD and SINGLE modes. The D2 Clone is very inexpensive, packed full of great features, and is extremely simple to use.
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Crucial P5 1TB NVMe SSD Review
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Crucial P5 1TB NVMe SSD Review
Crucial P5 1TB NVMe SSD: Introduction
Today’s review features the Crucial P5 1TB NVMe SSD. Crucial is a brand of Micron, a major player in the memory and storage industry. Leveraging the expertise and manufacturing capabilities of its mother company, Crucial became a leading force in the SSD market. The Crucial P5 series is the perfect example since it not only uses Micron-made NAND, but is also built around an inhouse developed controller allowing it to reach sequential reads of up to 3400MB per second.
Crucial offers four variants of the P5 in 250GB, 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB capacity. The P5 series is currently available through the official Crucial website and other retailers at prices ranging from $54.99 USD for the 256GB version, to $339.99 USD for the larger 2TB model. At the time of writing, the 1TB review sample retails for $ 147.66 USD on Amazon, which puts it at a slight discount compared to other 1TB drives with similar specs. Each P5 NVMe drive is backed by a generous 5-year limited warranty; each variant has a specific Terabytes Written (TBW) value that would see the warranty expire if exceeded. The TBW ranges from 150 for the 256GB model, all the way to 1200 for the 2TB offering. The 1TB drive I’m looking at today has a decent TBW of 600.
Crucial P5 1TB NVMe SSD: Specifications
Capacity
1TB
Form Factor
M.2 2280
NAND Flash
3D TLC NAND
Dimensions (L x W x H)
80 x 22 x 8mm
Interface
PCIe Gen3 x4
Performance (Max)
Read 3400MB/s
Write 3000MB/s
Endurance
600 TBW
Warranty
5-year limited warranty
Crucial P5 1TB NVMe SSD: Closer Look
The P5 1TB NVMe SSD comes in a simple cardboard box in the Crucial blue and white livery. The packaging clearly shows the brand, model, and capacity of the drive. However, it fails to specify if the NVMe SSD within is a PCIe Gen3 or Gen4. The unit itself is protected by a transparent plastic clamshell and comes with a little booklet to help you getting started.
The Crucial P5 series sports a black PCB and comes adorned with a minimalistic black sticker showing the brand, model, and form factor. This is a single-sided drive with all the components laid out on the front side. This gives the P5 drives an advantage over double-sided drives in terms of thermal dissipation, since the components are fully exposed to the chassis airflow. Such configuration also takes full advantage of the M.2 shields that many motherboard manufacturers started including for some time.
Peeling off the sticker reveals that the P5 series is built around the Micron DM0 1B2 8-channel PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe 1.3 controller. Looking from the M.2 connector side, we get the controller, 1GB Micron LPDDR4 DRAM package, and two 512Gb Micron NW969 96-layer 3D TLC NAND Flash packages. This combination of components gives the drive its performance ratings of sustained read/write speeds of up to 3400/3000MB per second. It also supports hardware-based full-drive encryption and adaptive thermal protection.
Crucial P5 1TB NVMe SSD: Benchmarks
Crucial claims that the “P5 redefines what’s possible with innovations that transform the computing experience, delivering impressive speed and fierce data protection”. To verify the companies claims, I’ll be putting the 1TB version through the CrystalDiskMark and AS SSD benchmarks. The drive will be tested using the AMD based test system which includes the following components:
Crucial P5 1TB NVMe SSD: Conclusion
With the might of Micron behind it, the Crucial brand has a solid reputation for crafting affordable SSD and PC memory with great performance and reliability. Every PC DIYer out there probably used a Crucial product to build a new rig or upgrade a laptop storage. I personally used quite a few Crucial MX (and BX) SATA SSDs drives over the years to breathe a new life in older laptops or make a gaming PC snappier. Choosing those drives was a no-brainer since the price was always right for such well-built and extremely durable products. It was the same with the Crucial P1 and P2 NVMe SSD series released in the last couple years.
With the P5 series, Crucial is taking a stab – arguably a bit late to the party – at the high-end segment by offering an NVMe drive with read/write speeds rating of 3400/3000MB per second. The Crucial P5 1TB variant I looked at today is a no-nonsense NVMe PCIe Gen3 x4 SSD that delivers solid performance levels overall. My real-life usage experience was inline with the synthetic benchmark results. The drive was snappy, and I didn’t notice any issues while performing daily computing tasks involving writing or seeking data.
At $149.99 MSRP, the Crucial P5 1TB NVMe SSD is a solid choice for anyone looking for a fast drive that’s made by one of the biggest PC memory and storage manufacturers and backed by a 5-year warranty.
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