How we test

We always want to give the broadest possible workstation advice, so we use a wide variety of software for testing – and this year we’ve added even more with a huge new test suite from SPEC (the non-pr

SCORE PRICE Diskless, £604 exc VAT from uk.insight.com The DiskStation DS1522+ has always been one of Synology’s most popular desktop NAS appliances thanks to its combination of capacity, performance

SCORE PRICE IronWolf Pro, £449 exc VAT; Exos M, £424 exc VAT from broadbandbuyer.com Rapidly growing storage needs across the SMB and enterprise markets are driving intense competition between hard di

Workstations are the most powerful desktop PCs around. But there are always budgetary constraints, which means you will need to choose your components wisely based around your workloads and budget. It

SCORE PRICE £8,333 (£10,000 inc VAT) from wired2fire.co.uk Wired2Fire is a new name in our workstation Labs test, but from this first foray we expect to be seeing the Surrey-based company more often.

SCORE PRICE £11,000 (£13,200 inc VAT) from scan.co.uk/3xs Scan was one of two manufacturers to grab early samples of the new 9000-series AMD Ryzen Threadripper, equipping the 3XS GWP-A1-TR64 with the