The past few weeks have seen the unveiling of nVidia's GeForce GTX 700 series, leaked specs, official AMD Radeon HD 9970 specs, benchmarks of Intel's Haswell HD 5000/HD5200 IGPs, and new advancements in UEFI BIOS. To say the least, it's been an exciting few weeks in hardware news. PAX East felt decidedly slow this year for hardware when compared against last year's launch of IB and the NUC, but now the hardware companies have had time to catch up with themselves.

Here's our new episode of TechRAID, which is effectively a video/podcast round-up of all the latest hardware news:

In suit of its H630 silent case announcement and website redesign, NZXT has announced today that it intends to revitalize its Sentry series of fan controllers. NZXT's Sentry Mix 2 fan controller specs have been detailed in the announcement, and having tested previous models, we have a couple of thoughts on the unit. A review is pending.

NZXT's been teasing the release of a new addition to their quiet series of cases for nearly a week now, and as the reveal comes to fruition, we finally know what's in store: The H630.

The H-series of cases from NZXT is considered their "silent" line. The new H630 case takes the Phantom 630 chassis, makes some key panel changes, and promotes itself as an enthusiast-class silent enclosure option.

NZXT's H630 specs have been fully detailed along with the launch of a new website, so this is definitely a big day for the company. Here's what we know so far:

As everyday consumers continue to trend toward heavier utilization of smaller devices—phones, tablets, laptops, HTPCs, what-have-you—storage capacity becomes a more noticeable throttle than previously experienced on desktops. Thanks to some serious compression algorithms and efficient file management on mobile operating systems, we see more effective space utilization than previously -- still, for users who consume storage for large media formats, mobile readers and drives have become a bit of a 'thing.'

This was first demonstrated on our site through coverage of Corsair's Voyager Air, an all-in-one, self-powered standalone drive that effectively operates as a 'family fileserver.' The Voyager Air was marketed at a somewhat bonecrushing $180-$220. At the same event as Corsair's unveil, we received early sample units of Kingston's next iteration of their MobileLite family of remote storage; they're less all-encompassing and more affordable than the Voyager, but have a different approach to wireless storage. Let's talk about specs and applications.

Rosewill's been known to silently release budget/mid-range products without major press fanfare -- the Line-M, which we spotted at CES, is a recent example of this. The new Patriot case had no official press release, but is freshly available on Newegg and has been posted to the company's facebook page; here's what we know about the Rosewill Patriot case from the specs (review hopefully impending):