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Reviews
SPECIFICATIONS
4 bays •• Supports 2.5in and 3.5in drives ••
Maximum capacity 72TB •• Drives not supplied ••
227x225x136mm (HxDxW) •• 2.1kg •• Two-year
warranty http://www.snipca.com/41686VERDICT Ideal for adding vast
amounts of storage to your PC, but you
have to supply your own drives★★★★★
ALTERNATIVE Yottamaster 5 Bay
Hard Drive Enclosure £209 If 72TB
isn’t enough
storage for you,
this five-bay
DAS can
take you up
to 80TBDAS ENCLOSURE | £89 from Amazon http://www.snipca.com/41686TerraMaster D4-300
Driving force
SPECIFICATIONS
Logitech Advanced Optical Tracking sensor •• 400-
4,000dpi (variable in 100dpi increments) •• 6 buttons- • Connects via Bluetooth or Logitech Bolt USB
receiver (included) •• 10m wireless range •• Requires
1x AA battery •• 71x70x108mm •• 125g •• Two-year
warranty http://www.snipca.com/41687
MOUSE | £70 from Amazon http://www.snipca.com/41687Logitech Lift Vertical Ergonomic Mouse
Get the upper hand
find it (www.snipca.com/41689).
It took us around a week to adapt to
the shape of the vertical mouse, having
previously used a more traditional model,
but once we’d got used to it, we found it
to be one of the most comfortable mice
we’ve ever used. Vertical mice put your
wrist into a neutral rest position, which
reduces muscle use and minimises aches.
Like most Logitech wireless peripherals,
the Lift Vertical works without any need
for configuration. However, if you want
to make the most of its more advanced
features, you can install the Logitech
Options software, which lets you
customise the buttons, adjust the mouse
speed, tweak the battery-level indicators
and more. The ability to configure
different shortcuts for each program you
use is particularly welcome.
Logitech says the Lift Vertical has aLooking at the TerraMaster D4-300,
you’d be forgiven for assuming it’s a
network-attached storage (NAS) device.
It’s not. It’s actually a DAS: a direct-access
storage device. The main difference is that
you don’t connect a DAS to an Ethernet
port on your router. Instead, you connect
it directly to a USB port on your PC, as
you would an external hard drive. While
this means you can’t share its storage
with other devices on your network, you
can still load it with up to four internal
hard drives of up to 18TB each, in effect
giving your PC up to 72TB of external
storage. Note that it comes without anydrives, so you need to add the price of
those, unless you have some spares
kicking around.
The four drive bays are easily
accessible from the front of the unit
and accept both 2.5in and 3.5in drives.
This means you can install either
mechanical drives or SSDs, depending
on what you plan to do with the device.
Next to the drive bays are a power button
and some lights that show which bays
have drives installed. We tested it with
SSDs and found that it transferred data
at a steady 500MB/s over its USB
connection.
The most obvious use for such a device
would be to back up your files. The
system can be configured as a RAID
backup, which creates multiple copies of
your files on more than one drive, so ifThe Lift Vertical is Logitech’s most
affordable ergonomic mouse. At £70,
it’s £25 cheaper than the company’s
flagship model, the MX Vertical (£95,
http://www.snipca.com/41688).
It’s 71mm tall – though that’s 7.5mm
smaller than the MX Vertical’s 78.5mm –
and is shaped like a crashing wave, with
the main buttons and vertical scroll
wheel on the right at a 57-degree
angle, and the forward and back buttons
on the left. A left-handed version is
also available for the same price, though
you may have to go direct to Logitech to11 – 24 May 2022 • Issue 631six-month battery life, thanks to its
energy-efficient Bluetooth and Logi Bolt
USB wireless connections, though we
were unable to verify this in the time we
had to test it.VERDICT While its shape takes a
while to get used to, this turned out to
be one of the most comfortable mice
we’ve ever used★★★★★
ALTERNATIVE Logitech
MX Vertical £95 A larger
ergonomic mouse,
recommended for those
with bigger handsone fails, you still have a backup. If you
need a lot of storage for hobbies such as
video editing, it’s great for that, too.