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|  | | PC World - 12 Dec (PC World)At a glanceExpert`s Rating
Pros
Excellent 4K front day captures
Integrated GPS
Above average 1440p rear captures
Unique external storage feature
Cons
Detail lags in night captures
Really, really expensive
Our Verdict
The Viofo A329 with its 60fps, 4K UHD video is one of the two best daytime dash cams we’ve tested and we love the ability to use external SSDs for storage. However, it’s also very, very expensive and detail drops off significantly in night captures.
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Who knew we’d run across a new and unique feature — support for capturing video to external SSDs — in our latest look at a dash cam from solid but generally mainstream Viofo? The company’s high-resolution, high frame rate A329 takes fantastic day captures and sports all the bells and whistles, including GPS, voice commands, and Wi-Fi. It does, however, set you back quite a bit of coin.
What are the Viofo A329’s features?
The Viofo A329 is a 60 frame per second, 2160p dash cam (front), that’s available in both single-channel (front-only), and dual-channel (front/rear) flavors. I tested the latter with its 1440p rear camera.
The front camera features an 8 megapixel Sony STARVIS 2 IMX678 sensor and offers a 140 degree field of view, while the rear camera uses a 5 megapixel Sony STARVIS 2 IMX675 with a 160 degree field of view.
There’s a 2.4-inch color display, with five indicator lights (power, recording status, GPS status, microphone status, and Wi-Fi status) directly below. Aligned with the status lights are five buttons for the menu, record on/off, emergency save, microphone on/off, and Wi-Fi on/off. Logical enough, though all of the buttons are multi-function pulling duty for menu navigation and other purposes.
On the right side of the body are the microSD slot, miniature coax port for the rear camera cable (a fair amount of pressure is required for insertion and removal — as with the rear camera’s coax port), and a mini-HDMI video output.
Further reading: See our roundup of the best dash cams to learn about competing products.
The coaxial rear camera port, microSD slot, and mini-HDMI output on the right side of the A329.
The left side of the front camera body sports a Type-C port for power and direct connection to a computer for offloading videos. Serving as mass storage when connected is a feature I appreciate, but has seemingly fallen out of favor with many vendors. You get a bit of a show from the status lights when the A329 is in mass storage mode. Nice. There’s also a reset button on the left if the unit goes wonky.
Better than that, you can actually attach an external (up to 4TB) SSD to the Type-C port and use it in lieu of the internal SD card. This is the first time I’ve run across this capability and it makes the price of the A329 easier to bear.
The Type-C USB port and pinhole reset button on the left side of the Viofo A329.
The GPS is in the sticky mount that comes with the A329. You slide the camera onto the mount from the right, and there are metal contacts on both halves to facilitate the connection. If you want the GPS, you must attach the Type-C to Type-C cable to the port on the top of the mount — not the camera. To be honest, I’ve screwed that up before. Much to my consternation when I looked at resulting videos.
The Viofo app with the live view, library, and settings pages
There is of course, an app (shown above) that features a live view, library of captures, and access to all the camera settings. It communicates via the integrated Wi-Fi hot spot.
How much is the Viofo A329?
Hang on to your hat for this next bit. The two-channel version of the A329 I tested is $470. Yowser. Even sans rear camera, it’s a hefty $400. That, dear friends is not what was once commonly referred to as chump change.
Artsy view of the A329’s rather pricey front camera lens.
No doubt part of the pricing is for electronics capable of dealing with 60fps, 2160p video. But geez — there’s some pretty awesome competition for considerably less. Note that you’ll also go through TF cards faster, albeit not as much faster as you might think (see below).
How are the Viofo A329’s captures?
No mystery here, as I’ve already spilled the beans. The A329’s front day captures are second to none, and the rear day captures are also among the best I’ve seen.
If the detail had been maintained once it got dark, I would say that Viofo was justified in its pricing. Alas, while still decent, the night captures are nowhere near the quality of daytime video. And couldn’t hold a candle to the Miofive S1’s night video. (Yes, that was on purpose.)
The level of detail in the day capture is spectacular.
The A329’s front day captures are second to none, and the rear day captures are also among the best I’ve seen.
The level of detail in the day capture shown in the image above is spectacular. The colors are spot-on for a gray day here in San Francisco, fish eye is minimal for the FOV, and there were no motion artifacts of any sort. 60 frames per second will help with that.
Despite the high level of detail, the 4K UHD/60fps video chews up only around 310MB per minute. Most h.264 4K captures use anywhere from 220MB to 250MB every 60 seconds — I don’t consider 25 percent too hefty a penalty; however, you’ll want as close to the 512GB maximum TF Card as you can afford.
In case you weren’t aware, unless you or the camera (due to the g-sensor kicking in) explicitly lock or save a video, it will eventually be deleted to make room for newer captures. First recorded, first deleted. If you see something interesting you want to view in the future, keep this in mind.
Being 1440p helped quite a bit with the detail in the rear camera day captures.
Being 1440p helped quite a bit with the detail in the rear camera day captures, an example of which is shown above. These are h.264 to the tune of approximately 145MB per minute. Color quality is similar to the front camera’s, as is motion compensation, but fish-eye is more noticeable.
Alas, the front night captures aren’t nearly as outstanding as the front day video.
Alas, the front night captures (above) aren’t nearly as outstanding as the front day video. Color is still relatively accurate, there are no motion artifacts, and headlight flare is minimal, but detail is comparatively poor, as you can see in the license plate to the right.
The rear night captures fell off similarly to the fronts.
The rear night captures (above) fell off similarly to the fronts. Despite the STARVIS moniker, this seems to be a trend with Sony’s sensors. Color and other qualities are fine, but detail suffers greatly from the lack of light.
In total, the A329 is among the best daylight dash cams I’ve tested. I’d rate the detail of the front captures second only to the Wolfbox X5’s ultra-wide 5K (single-channel) and its motion compensation second to none. However, its night captures are a far cry from the standard set by the Miofive S1.
Should you buy the Viofo A329?
I’m an admirer of the A329’s stellar day captures as well as the overall product. Especially the game-changing ability to capture to external SSDs. However, I was a bit startled when I visited the product page and saw the price. Even without the rear camera, it’s $100 more than the 5K Wolfbox X5 and almost twice as much as the 4K Miofive S1 with its stellar night captures. A very worthy product, but only for those with the means. Read...Newslink ©2025 to PC World |  |
|  | | PC World - 11 Dec (PC World)At a glanceExpert`s Rating
Pros
Fastest host memory buffer NVMe SSD we’ve tested
More affordable than DRAM designs
Available with up to 8TB of capacity
Cons
8TB capacity is pricier per GB than the others
Our Verdict
If you want excellent overall performance, and the option for 8TB of capacity, the SN850X is a top choice. That said, you can save money with two 4TB SN850X drives if you have the slots.
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There are only a handful of NMVe SSDs available in the 8TB capacity, of which WD’s SN850X is one of, if not the best. Indeed, it took the overall performance crown for DRAM-less SSDs, far eclipsing its previous results. Speaking of which…
This is a refresh of our original review of the SN850X. The 2TB version we tested previously had slipped to 5th place (now 6th) in performance among some fierce host memory bus competition, while the 8TB version, as mentioned, now ranks first.
What are the WD SN850X’s features?
The SN850X sports the usual 2280 (22x80mm) M.2 form factor and is PCIe 4 x4 NVMe SSD. The NAND is BiCS6 162-layer TLC (Triple-Level Cell/3-bit) with what the company claims is a Western Digital designed controller. Note that the other capacities use the older BiCS5 112-layer TLC NAND.
The drive is a DRAM-less (host memory buffer) design. I.e., it uses approximately 64MB of your devices memory for primary caching duties. This technology is every bit as fast as DRAM designs when it comes to sustained throughput, but offers only around half the random performance dedicated cache memory can provide. Note that said random performance is still very, very fast.
The back of the 8TB SN850X with its two additional NAND chips.
WD’s solid state drive expertise comes courtesy of SanDisk, a company it purchased a while back, and that’s the name on the controller.
WD provides a generous five-year warranty, but the 600TBW (terabytes that may be written) rating for every 1TB of capacity is less than half of what Seagate offers with the FireCuda 530.
The 8TB SN850X tested noticeably faster than the 2TB version in nearly all phases.
How much is the WD SN850X?
As you might guess given its performance, you won’t be seeing the WD Black SN850X in the bargain bin, but it’s far less expensive than it was when it first appeared.
The 1TB capacity is available for $84, the 2TB for $160, the 4TB for $310, and the 8TB we tested for $650 (but as high as $810 currently on Amazon). Yes, you’re paying a $30 to $100+ premium for the top capacity. If you have the slots, you might opt for multiple 2TB or 4TB models to save money.
Add $10 to $30 if you want a heatsink (most modern motherboards provide their own).
How fast is the WD SN850X?
The 8TB SN850X tested noticeably faster than the 2TB version in nearly all phases, which vaulted it up to the number 6 position among all NVMe SSDs and again — first place among DRAM-less, host memory buffer designs.
The 8TB proved faster than the older 2TB in all the sequential tests, though not by a whole lot.
This new 8TB model’s random performance is appreciably faster than the older 2TB SN850X’s. Especially with multiple queues — something Windows, unfortunately, still does not use.
This new 8TB model’s random performance is appreciably faster than the older 2TB SN850X’s.
The 8TB SN850X also excelled on our 48GB transfers, knocking a ton of time off the 2TB version’s performance.
The 8TB SN850X also excelled on our 48GB transfers.
Topping off its victory was the fastest 450GB write we’ve seen to date. By only a second, which is within the margin of error, but hey… A win is a win.
Topping off its victory was the fastest 450GB write we’ve seen to date.
The overall results say something has changed for the better with the SN850X beyond mere greater capacity. Faster NAND, an updated controller…. We’re not sure as to the reason, but we like it.
Caveat: We can’t vouch for the performance of the other capacities, not having tested them. However, given that they use the older BiCS5 112-layer NAND, bank on them being the same as what you see from the 2TB version in the charts above.
Should you buy the WD SN850X 8TB?
The 8TB WD Black SN850X is a stellar choice if you’re looking to save money with a host memory buffer design. It’s an excellent performer, though we wish you didn’t pay such a hefty premium for the top capacity (and likely better performance). Regardless, a very desirable SSD from WD. Very.
How we test
IDG’s storage tests currently utilize Windows 11 (22H2) 64-bit running on an X790 (PCIe 5.0) motherboard/i5-12400 CPU combo with two Kingston Fury 32GB DDR5 modules (64GB of memory total). Intel integrated graphics are used. The 48GB transfer tests utilize an ImDisk RAM disk taking up 58GB of the 64GB total memory. The 450GB file is transferred from a Samsung 990 Pro 2TB, which also contains the operating system.
Each test is performed on a newly formatted and TRIM’d drive so the results are optimal. Note that as any drive fills up, performance will decrease due to less NAND for secondary caching, and other factors.
The performance numbers shown apply only to the drive we were shipped as well as the capacity tested. SSD performance can vary by capacity due to more or fewer chips to read/write across and the amount of NAND available for secondary caching (writing TLC/QLC as SLC). Vendors also occasionally swap components. If you ever notice a large discrepancy between the performance you experience and that which we report (systems being roughly equal), by all means—let us know. Read...Newslink ©2025 to PC World |  |
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|  | | PC World - 7 Dec (PC World)At a glanceExpert`s Rating
Pros
Good day captures
Nicely rendered phone app
Attractive physical design
Cloud storage and optional emergency service (phone-based)
Integrated GPS
Cons
Expensive for a single-channel dash cam
Middling night captures
Our Verdict
The Piqo is a pint-sized, phone-connected, GPS dash cam from Nextbase with a classy design. It also offers cloud uploads, location, and emergency services, but via your phone rather than integrated LTE as with the company’s iQ.
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Our last look at a Nextbase dash cam was the large-and-in-charge, LTE-enabled iQ. The Piqo that’s the subject of this review is far smaller — a single-channel, non-LTE, GPS dash cam whose diminutive profile reminds us of our favorite Garmin models.
The Piqo sports a handsome, modern design and, appealingly, offers phone connectivity and cloud storage (manual, via your phone). But it delivers only middling night capture quality for a somewhat steep price.
Further reading: See our roundup of the best dash cams to learn about competing products.
What are the Nextbase Piqo’s features?
The Piqo is single-channel (front cam, of course), 2,560-pixel horizontal resolution dash cam available in 1080p (140 degree field of view) and 1440p (145 degree FOV) vertical resolutions. I tested the higher resolution, wider aspect ratio model, but both feature integrated GPS.
The Piqo is around 4-inches tall — including the semi-permanent adhesive, two-piece slide-off mount. The camera body is about 1.5-inches wide and 1-inch thick, including the front lens body and protruding multi-function button on the back.
The body is married to the mount via a ball joint, which makes it adjustable in any direction. Nice, but I did find I had to readjust the camera sometimes after pressing the button. Be gentler than I was.
The rear of the Nextbase Piqo with its large, easy-to-press multi-function button. The status LED is a ring light surrounding it.
The SD card slot is situated on the left side of the camera body, and the Type-C power port is on the right. There’s also a mic on the interior face to accommodate the Piqo’s voice command capability. An LED ring light circling the center of the large multi-function (Save/Bluetooth pair/etc.) button lets you know the unit’s status.
I’m happy about Nextbase’s choice to utilize Type-C connectors. Type-C cables are much easier to source and replace than proprietary coax types. Even the auxiliary power adapter’s twin ports are Type-C. If you have older Type-A accessories or cables, you’ll need to grab a Type-A to Type-C adapter to use this adapter.
There’s an app of course — the iOS version of which is shown below. Note that it’s a new app specifically for the Piqo and it allows you to download videos, share them, and map your travels using the GPS info.
The Piqo connects to your phone via Bluetooth, with the live view carried over Wi-Fi. The pairing and Wi-Fi logon processes are quick and efficient, though I grew weary of being asked to join the Piqo’s Wi-Fi hot spot every time I wanted to view a video. Just do it, Nextbase.
An initial setup screen, one of the settings pages, and the Live view in the Nextbase app.
I mentioned voice commands, which are very handy, and largely necessary thanks to the lack of a display. The Piqo’s parking/surveillance mode (and everyone else’s), where it wakes when the g-sensor notes a disturbance, requires constant power — either wire tap/fuse box or an OBDII adapter. Both are available from Nextbase.
One Piqo oddity I found. Simply turning my car’s ignition key to the on position wasn’t enough to power up the Piqo, as was the case with the nearly 100 other dash cams I’ve reviewed. I had to turn the engine on for it to fire up. The reason for the behavior wasn’t explained, and I didn’t find a voltage-sensing setting to adjust. My battery is in very good shape, being only a year or so old.
How much does the Nextbase Piqo cost?
The 2560×1080 Piqo retails for $130, and the 2560×1440 version is $20 more at $150.
The front of the Nextbase Piqo.
There’s no ongoing subscription costs for the Piqo itself as there’s no integrated LTE, but if you want 180-day, rather than 30-day retention of videos that you upload from the phone app to Nextbase, as well as the phone-based Emergency SOS function, it’s $5 monthly. You could of course rely on your own cloud storage.
More on those features: Emergency SOS alerts emergency services with precise location information in the event of an incident based on a severe g-sensor reading. Guardian Mode Lite automatically saves timestamped, GPS-marked video clips if triggered by an event. Nearly all dash cams will do this — however, the Piqo lets you set a speed that when exceeded can trigger an event. Hence the fancy name.
Voice-activated Witness Mode Lite saves footage, as you can also do with most dash cams via voice or button. The unique thing here is that it’s shared instantly with a designated emergency contact if you’re connected to your phone at the time. Again, all of these features require that you be connected to your phone. Hence the “lite” in the designations.
What’s the quality of the Nextbase Piqo’s captures?
I was expecting a tad better default capture quality from a $150 dash cam from industry stalwart Nextbase. Daytime captures are good, but the detail isn’t quite as sharp as I was expecting from 1440p. Color is accurate, but I had to dial back the exposure a notch. The capture below is at the default exposure setting, in a relatively low-light area for a sunny day.
Note that these videos were from was 10/31/2024 and 11/1/2024, not 1/11/2024 as shown. I didn’t set the date before testing. The time, however, is correct, most likely set automatically via GPS.
This daylight capture from the Piqo is good, if not spectacular.
Capture quality drops off quite a bit at night. The image below is with my headlights on and detail is still hard to come by. Parked with the headlights off, detail in surrounding areas was even more difficult to spot.
More detail will start to appear when you up the exposure using a photo editor, but extensive post-production is not something most users want to do.
This Piqo night capture is far fuzzier in terms of detail than we like to see.
For day use the Piqo is more than workable, if not the best I’ve seen. At night, well it’s no Mifofive S1. I’ve seen a half dozen cameras recently with more detailed night captures, even sans headlights.
Operationally, I found downloading videos to the phone and then up to the cloud both rather tedious, though smaller thumbnail versions allow you to quickly preview them. The Piqo also tends to run a bit warm. Not unexpected from a dash cam this small sporting integrated GPS.
The Piqo’s night captures improve when you up the exposure using a photo editor, but extensive post-production is not something most users want to do.
Should you buy the Nextbase Piqo?
The Piqo is a well-designed, single-channel dash cam, that has all the bells and whistles including free cloud storage. But the night capture quality is bit wanting, and to take advantage of the extras, you must have your phone with you at all times.
If those services are what you seek, you might be better off with the Nextbase iQ. Damned the expense. Read...Newslink ©2025 to PC World |  |
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|  | | PC World - 6 Dec (PC World)Though it was a bit rough around the edges in terms of backwards compatibility, my first look at 80Gbps Thunderbolt 5 storage reveals a very nice uptick in performance — about twice the 40Gbps of Thunderbolt 3/USB 4 in certain benchmarks. Logical.
By way of comparison, that’s roughly as fast as an NVMe SSD on the PCIe 4.0 bus. And a PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD is exactly what’s inside the OWC Envoy Ultra portable drive I used to test Thunderbolt 5 storage.
Note that you’ll see 120Gbps listed in the Thunderbolt 5 specs, but that’s uni-directional output for driving multiple high-resolution displays. Bi-directional transfers such as those used by storage devices are “limited” to 80Gbps, or roughly 6- to 7GBps after overhead.
How well does Thunderbolt 5 work?
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My debut look at Thunderbolt 5 came courtesy of the aforementioned Envoy Ultra attached to a Thunderbolt 5, 32GB Maingear ML-17 (Mk. II) laptop. Obviously, I wasn’t able to use the 59GB RAM disk in my standard test PC for 48GB transfers, but the T-Force NVMe SSD in the laptop provided a decently fast substitute.
Alas, the Envoy Ultra completely failed to appear on our official Asus ROG Strix Z790-I (Thunderbolt 4) test bed. It didn’t appear in the BIOS, disk manager, or the Thunderbolt utility. The issue is being cooperatively investigated by OWC, Intel, and Asus as the drive failed to enumerate on an Asus Maximus Z890 Hero board as well. In case you weren’t aware, Thunderbolt 5 is supposed to be full backward compatible with versions 3 and 4.
Further, only the newer Sonoma and Sequoia versions of macOS would recognize the Envoy Ultra for use on my Apple Silicon Mac Studio, though it was enumerated on the Thunderbolt bus in System Info as far back as Ventura. Sequoia is required for Intel-based Macs.
Finally, I was unable to test on older Thunderbolt 2 systems as the Envoy Ultra sports a captive Type-C cable which prevented me from employing Apple’s Thunderbolt 2 to 3 adapter.
This is an extremely small sample size of equipment, so I’m not sure just how pervasive the issues are, but there have been rumblings around the industry about the current state of compatibility. It’s definitely toe-in-water-time for Thunderbolt 5 — even for early adopters.
Note that after a Z790-I BIOS update (9901) provided by Asus on November 25th, 2024, the Envoy Ultra was recognized and performed as expected.
Further reading from another PCWorld expert: My first Thunderbolt 5 experience has been a massive bust
What Thunderbolt 5 gear is available?
Another Thunderbolt 5 laptop currently shipping is the Razer Blade 18. Both Asus and Gigabyte have announced a slew of motherboards that either feature Thunderbolt 5 or sport headers so they can be upgraded to it via add-on cards.
Can you upgrade older computers with add-on cards? According to my inquiries, no. There are some clever engineers and hackers out there, but there are timing issues and other factors that make porting backwards highly unlikely. Yup, you’ll need new stuff to get Thunderbolt 5 speeds. And note that neither Thunderbolt 4 or 5 are compatible with older Thunderbolt 2.
How fast is Thunderbolt 5 storage?
How about 6GBps sequential reading, and nearly 4GBps sequential writing with multiple queues? Then there’s nearly 4GBps sequential reading and writing single-queued. That’s a very nice bump up from the previous highs of around 3GBps multi-queued and 2.5GBps single-queued delivered by 40Gbps USB 4.
It’s about what we’d expect from doubling bandwidth from 40Gbps to 80Gbps. You can see the evidence below from CrystalDiskMark 8.
The Thunderbolt 5 OWC Envoy Ultra absolutely rocked CrystalDiskMark 8’s sequential throughput tests.
However, when it comes to random performance under CrystalDiskMark 8, the test picture painted no particular improvement. This stands to reason as increased throughput isn’t going to help any drive find/seek data faster.
Random performance, according to CrystalDiskMark 8, is little improved over 40Gbps technologies.
To reiterate, this was a pre-production drive on a brand-new laptop rather than our official test bed. As I had to transfer my 48GB files from SSD to SSD I omitted those results. However, in total with this arrangement the Envoy Ultra still finished a mere second slower than the first place OWC 1M2 — easily within the margin of error for these tests.
The ATTO benchmark thought highly of the Envoy Ultra, if not as highly as CrystalDiskMark 8.
We also omitted the results for our usual 450GB write as it’s more a test of the SSD inside and the amount of secondary cache it offers, rather than the speed of the bus. The Envoy Ultra was on pace for a stellar result if it hadn’t slowed to 1.2GBps when secondary cache was exhausted.
Again, official Envoy Ultra numbers will have to wait until we upgrade our test bed to Thunderbolt 5. The test results above are simply to illustrate the rough difference between Thunderbolt 3/4, USB 4, 10Gbps USB, and Thunderbolt 5 performance.
In summation, there was a marked increase in sequential transfers — with multiple queues and with only one. On suitably fast systems, it should save you time. Once again, random ops are minimally improved so don’t expect an uptick in lots-of-small-files scenarios.
Note that these tests were run on a pre-production version of the Envoy Ultra, though OWC did eventually get a shipping version to us.
What does Thunderbolt 5 mean for you?
Thunderbolt 5 is here and you probably want it (we do), even if it saves you only modest amounts of time in the real world. Time is money, of course, but to see a profit, you’ll have to overcome some hefty initial investments — the 2TB OWC Envoy Ultra I tested is $400 and the 4TB is $600. Gulp.
Thunderbolt 5 motherboards and Windows laptops are priced for the top-shelf as well, and the high cost-to-performance ratio carries over to the Mac. Only high-end newbies such as the Mac Mini (M4 Pro) offer Thunderbolt 5.
Long story short… For the nonce, Thunderbolt 5 is for adventurous early adopters, enthusiasts, and prosumers who actually need the speed, and have the software and hardware to take advantage of it. This is par for the course with any new technology, though we don’t remember these kind of compatibility issues with Thunderbolt 4.
Most folks will be just fine with less expensive and — at the moment — more trustworthy 40Gbps Thunderbolt 4 and USB 4, including our top-rated external drive, the Adata SE920. Read...Newslink ©2025 to PC World |  |
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