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Orico O7000: One-minute review

Although we’re technically in the PCIe 5.0 era of storage, it’s really been a golden age for PCIe 4.0 SSDs thanks to a plethora of choices, such as the Orico O7000, which is positioned as a drive with high-end performance for a midrange price.

This PCIe 4.0 SSD ranges from 512GB to 4TB, and for this review we’re taking the 1TB model for a spin. Rated for 7000MB/s in reads and 6500MB/s in writes, the O7000 isn’t quite at the top-end of PCIe 4.0 storage (which would be the Samsung 990 Pro), but it’s close.

What makes this drive particularly interesting is its current $69 price (about £55/AU$100), which is relatively low nowadays for a drive of this caliber.

Compared to top-end PCIe 4.0 SSDs like the FireCuda 530R from Seagate and the MP600 Pro NH from Corsair, the O7000 is just a shade slower for the most part, and often ties the two drives.

However, when writing lots of data to the O7000 (like if you’re moving all your game installations to it), its performance easily bogs down and becomes extremely slow.

The O7000 1TB also has a weakness in that other brands offer the same SSD hardware under different names, and these drives can sometimes be cheaper, but sales pricing is always a fickle thing.

For now, though, the O7000 is the cheapest option for this hardware, and its performance makes it one of the best values in PCIe 4.0 storage.

Orico O7000: Price & availability

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• How much does it cost? From $69 (about £55/AU$100)
• When is it out? Available now
• Where can you get it? Available in the US, with UK and Australia availability pending

The O7000 is currently available on Amazon and Newegg, though at the time of writing, Amazon only offers the 1TB model, while Newegg also has the 2TB and 4TB variants in stock. The 1TB model costs $59, the 2TB $93, and the 4TB $196. The 2TB is currently the best deal on a dollar per GB basis, but since SSD prices can easily go up or down, it’s unclear how long this will be true for.

At $59 for the 1TB model, it’s significantly cheaper than other flagship PCIe 4.0 drives like Seagate’s FireCuda 530R and Corsair’s MP600 Pro NH, which cost $94 and $84 respectively for the 1TB version. It’s also much cheaper than older PCIe 5.0 SSDs, such as the $169 FireCuda 540 1TB.

Orico O7000: Specs Orico O7000: Performance

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Overall, the O7000 shows good, but not perfect, performance. The 530R and MP600 Pro NH were faster for the most part, but in nearly every single test the O7000 nipped on their heels. There were even a few instances where the O7000 tied or beat the Seagate and Corsair drives.

A particularly bright spot for the O7000 is its thermal performance and efficiency. It only maxed out at 50 degrees Celsius, far lower than the three other SSDs we tested. That makes the O7000 a decent candidate for laptops and handheld PCs, which often lack good SSD cooling.

Of course, more heat occurs because of higher power consumption, so the O7000 is a low-power drive too, another reason to choose it for a battery-powered device.

The FireCuda 540 was of course in its own league, but it costs about twice as much and benefits from active cooling, something the O7000 definitely doesn’t need.

However, the O7000’s biggest weakness is in sustained writes. All SSDs suffer from lowered writing performance the less free space they have, but the O7000 can see its performance drop to as low as 150MB/s. However, it’s rare to come across this situation in the real world since it requires tens or hundreds of gigabytes of large files being moved to an SSD.

Orico O7000: Verdict

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While the O7000 1TB isn’t perfect, its overall performance is very close to what you get with the FireCuda 530R 2TB and MP600 Pro NH 2TB. With a substantially lower price tag of $69, that makes the O7000 a better deal for the most part. If you’re looking for a new boot drive on a budget or if you just want some fast, secondary storage, the O7000 is a sensible choice.

However, the SSD that the O7000 1TB is based on is also made by other brands, including TeamGroup with its MP44. There’s really no reason to buy the more expensive drive since they’re essentially identical, but that works in Orico’s favor right now since the O7000 is cheaper.

The O7000 2TB is an especially good deal right now, going for just $93, which isn’t much more than lots of 1TB drives. Spending the extra $34 to get double the storage and the same performance makes the O7000 2TB especially appealing versus the 1TB model, though we don’t know how long this will hold since SSD prices can change quite frequently (and have done so as this review was in progress).

Should you buy the Orico O7000 Buy the Orico O7000 if...

You need fast storage on a budget
The O7000 has nearly top-end performance for a PCIe 4.0 SSD, and should work fine for just about anyone.

You want a cool and efficient SSD
The O7000 consumes very little power, which means longer battery life on mobile devices and low temperatures even without a heatsink.

Don't buy it if...

You need top-end performance period
The O7000 isn’t quite as fast as other PCIe 4.0 SSDs and stumbles in sustained writing.

You can find another SSD with the same hardware for less
There are a few SSDs out there that use the same components, such as TeamGroup’s MP44 and Lexar’s NM790. They’re essentially identical, so if they’re cheaper, just get one of those instead.

How I tested the Orico O7000

Although Intel’s new Core Ultra 200 Series has technically replaced last-gen 14th Gen CPUs, I’m using my LGA 1700 test bench for SSD testing, rather than an LGA 1851 test bench.

This is because SSDs run on Arrow Lake CPUs actually perform significantly worse than on 14th Gen CPUs. We’re not entirely sure why this is the case, but in order to show our SSDs’ best possible performance, we have to use Intel’s last-gen CPUs.

The LGA 1700 test bench is equipped with the Core i9-14900K, ASRock’s Z790 Taichi Lite motherboard, 32GB of DDR5 clocked to 5600MHz, and Corsair’s H170i iCUE LINK liquid cooler with a 420mm radiator. We also tested the Firecuda 530R, Firecuda 540, and MP600 Pro NH for comparison.

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• Infinity Nikki Version 1.1 is out now
• It introduces new limited-time events, plus a fresh Mira Journey battle pass
• You can also claim free log in rewards

Magical fashionistas rejoice, cause cozy open-world dress-up adventure Infinity Nikki has received its first major update.

The Version 1.1, or ‘Shooting Star Season’ update, introduces a wide range of new events with some great rewards. This includes the ‘Star-Kissed Wishes’ event, which allows you to earn Diamonds and the exclusive ‘Memory's Stardust’ earrings sketch. There’s also the limited-time ‘Celestial Wishes’ Resonance event, with the five-star ‘Wings of Wishes’ and four-star ‘Starfall Radiance’ outfits up for grabs.

Both outfits grant unique effects. Wearing the full ‘Wings of Wishes’ set allows you to float around gracefully on the wings of a paper crane, while wearing the full ‘Starfall Radiance' set fills the sky with beautiful shooting stars.

The ‘Into a Starry Night’ event will also be unlocked, letting you complete tasks in order to claim the free three-star ‘Path of Starlight’ outfit. This is on top of the ‘Adventures under the Stars’, ‘Let’s Touch Shooting Stars!’, and ‘Take the Bait, Pink Ribbon Eel!’ events, which will each offer their own rewards.

New check-in bonuses will be available too, with those who log in for a total of seven days receiving 10 Revelation Crystal.

As you might expect, the update brings a handful of new quests. Notable additions include the ‘Call of Beginnings’ Interlude Chapter, which rewards you with a sketch for the five-star ‘Silvergale’s Arial’ Miracle Outfit free of charge. A new Mira Journey battle pass has been enabled, letting you level up through a fresh series of rewards.

Some novel features are being added, such as Assisted Path. If you frequently fail at a dungeon stage, you will be able to enable Assisted Path in order to quickly clear it, which sounds incredibly useful.

All of this has been bundled with plenty of fixes and optimizations, improving the Infinity Nikki experience. You can read the full patch notes via a recent post to the game’s official X / Twitter account.

Infinity Nikki is available now as a free-to-play title on PC, PlayStation 5, Android, and iOS.

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Reacher season 3: key information

- Set to debut on Prime Video next February
- First trailer released in early December
- Based on Lee Child’s seventh Reacher book, which is titled 'Persuader'
- Alan Ritchson and Maria Sten returning from previous seasons
- New supporting cast revealed
- Plot synopsis detailed by Amazon
- Season 4 is already in the works

Ready to rock and roll with Reacher season 3? You're in luck. Indeed, we don't have to wait much longer for a show that's been dubbed “peak Dad TV” by numerous observers to return to our screeners.

Why? Because Reacher's latest season will make its Prime Video debut on February 20, 2025. At the time that this article is going live, then, the hit Amazon series is less than two months away from making its comeback. Before it does, you'll want the latest news and rumors about Reacher season 3, including its full release schedule, cast details, early story teases, and more. Good job we've put in the hard yards and rounded all of that up for you, then, eh?

Major spoilers follow for Reacher's previous two seasons. Potential cast and plot spoilers also follow for the forthcoming season, too.

Reacher season 3 release date

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Reacher season 3 will officially makes its bow on Prime Video, aka one of the world's best streaming services, on February 20, 2025. The announcement was made during Amazon's CCXP Brazil panel in early December, with Ritchson taking to the stage to unveil Reacher season 3's release date and trailer (more on the latter shortly).

Like the action show's second season, this chapter will launch with a three-episode premiere. New entries will air weekly until the season finale on March 27 after it debuts.

Reacher season 3 trailer

Reacher season 3's full trailer hasn't dropped online yet, but a 30-second teaser received its world premiere at CCXP Brazil. Typically, it showed off plenty of explosive action, the return of Reacher's most trustworthy ally in Maria Sten's Frances Neagley, and introduced us to a towering new henchman who's not only taller than the eponymous hero, but also the one individual who's been able to properly know Reacher to the ground with a single punch.

Reacher season 3 confirmed cast

Alan Ritchson returns to take names and kick butt as the titular character (Image credit: Prime Video)

Possible spoilers follow for Reacher season 3.

Here's the confirmed cast list for Reacher season 3 so far:

• Alan Ritchson as Jack Reacher
• Maria Sten as Frances Neagley
• Olivier Richters as Paulie
• Anthony Michael Hall as Zachary Beck
• Sonya Cassidy as Susan Duffy
• Brian Tee as Quinn
• Johnny Berchtold as Richard Beck
• Robert Montesinos as Guillermo Villanueva
• Daniel David Stewart as Steven Elliot

Ritchson and Sten reprise their roles from Reacher's previous seasons, but there are plenty of new faces joining them for the show's next outing.

The *ahem* biggest news is that Dutch bodybuilder Olivier Richters, who stands at over seven foot, is playing an absolute colossus going by the name of Paulie. He was seen briefly in season 3's first trailer as the individual who gives Reacher a taste of his own medicine from a brute force viewpoint.

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In February, Amazon announced two other new hires in Hall and Cassidy. The former is playing Zachary Beck, aka "a formidable and successful businessman, Beck is a widow and single father of a 20-year-old son, Richard. He is the owner of a rug import company that Reacher and his cohorts suspect is a cover for a more nefarious operation". Cassidy, meanwhile, will portray Agent Susan Duffy, "an extremely intelligent and tough DEA agent from Boston with a sharp and sarcastic sense of humour."

One month later, Amazon MGM Studios confirmed four more actors had landed roles. Tee will play Quinn, a "physically imposing and intimidating Lieutenant Colonel in the army, who Reacher investigated ten years ago when he sold military secrets to hostile nations". Berchtold is on board as Richard Beck, the only son of Zachary, who we’re told is a "sensitive and artistic college student."

Elsewhere, Montesinos will star as Villanueva, a DEA agent on the verge of retirement. Villanueva is Duffy's mentor and described as "paunchy with bad knees and a good natured sense of humour, he really loves and cares about Duffy even though they bust each other's chops all the time". Lastly, Stewart will play Steven Elliot, a clean-cut rookie DEA agent, who is "lovable, fresh-faced, new to the job and still learning."

Reacher season 3 story synopsis and rumors

Frances Neagley will, once again, aid Jack Reacher throughout this season (Image credit: Prime Video)

Mild spoilers follow for Reacher season 3's plot.

Here's the official story synopsis for season 3: "In the third season of the action-packed series, Reacher hurtles into the dark heart of a vast criminal enterprise when trying to rescue an undercover DEA informant whose time is running out. There he finds a world of secrecy and violence – and confronts some unfinished business from his own past."

The forthcoming season is based on 'Persuader', the seventh book in Lee Child’s global best-selling book series. And, based on what Ritchson told ComicBook.com, this season could be one of his most personal stories yet. "There's a lot of classic Reacher stories which are just adventures that he gets sucked into in a big way," the man mountain actor said. "We get to enjoy Reacher in a new world. It may not have anything to do with family [or] with his past – he's just living that adventure out and that's kind of the direction that we've gone and it seems to really be working."

Elaborating further on what fans can expect from the threequel, Ritchson told Collider: "Things get pretty dangerous. Things get – and I mean this, I would never lead you astray – there's been a little tiny something in each season where I've been like, 'I wish we could do that better.'

"Season 3 is by far the best season we've ever made," he continued. "Start to finish, this is high octane action, this is peak TV, and I cannot wait for everyone to watch this. I don't want to ruin it for you. In 'Persuader', Reacher has to go undercover, and he's gotta do some heavy lifting, both to stay alive and to find someone he's looking for. Things get quite dangerous. But he also comes across his most formidable foe yet in Paulie."

Sounds like the titular roamer is in for a rough ride, then! February 2025 can't come soon enough.

Has Prime Video said anything about Reacher season 4 yet?

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It has – in fact, Amazon MGM Studios confirmed it has greenlit Reacher season 4 in October. Not only that, but the e-commerce giant's entertainment division also announced a spin-off project, which will center on Sten's Neagley.

"Reacher has become a phenomenon that continues to resonate with our global customers beyond our wildest expectations and we are thrilled to bring the series back for an additional season," Vernon Sanders, head of television, Amazon MGM Studios, said in a Prime Video statement. "We are looking forward to more action and adventure from the immensely talented team behind the series including Nick Santora, Alan Ritchson, Lee Child, Skydance, and CBS Studios."

Considering there are 28 (!) books in Lee Child's Reacher novel series, there's still plenty of source material for the series to draw from. Given how popular Reacher continues to be – season 1 was an unexpectedly massive hit, while its sequel was the most-streamed Amazon TV Original of 2023 – as well, its massive audience isn't like to get tired of seeing Ritchson beat up more goons in the years ahead. Don't expect Reacher season 4 to be the show's last installment, then.

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• A potential Nintendo Switch 2 colorway may have leaked
• A new image suggests that the console will come in black / orange
• The rumored 'C' button is also visible

The good news is that we might finally know what kinds of colors the Nintendo Switch 2 could be available in. The bad news is that the potential colorway suggested by a recent leak is absolutely hideous.

The information comes from prominent leaker ‘NextHandheld’, who has been sharing images purportedly showing a finalized Nintendo Switch 2 retail unit on X / Twitter over the last few weeks. They respond to a user asking whether the Nintendo Switch 2 will feature blue and orange Joy-Con controllers, posting a cryptic photo that appears to support that claim.

In the image, we see the long-rumored ‘C’ button, a mysterious new input that has shown up in other recent leaks. It’s not entirely clear what it does quite yet, though some have speculated that it could be related to new online functions or a new hardware feature present on the system’s redesigned Joy-Con controllers.

The bottom of the home button can also be seen at the top of the image, which would indicate that this is a photo of the right Joy-Con. Interestingly, the colors are quite unlike anything we’ve seen with the Nintendo Switch thus far. The Joy-Con itself is black, but it's impossible to ignore what looks like a bright orange strip to the left of the controller.

It’s unclear whether this is part of the Joy-Con itself, the mechanism by which it will attach to the console, or just an accessory. It seems safe to assume that the other Joy-Con will feature an inverted version of this color scheme, presumably replacing the orange element with the blue claimed by the leaker.

I’m not the biggest fan of this color scheme, as the orange shown in the leak is quite garish and honestly looks like something you’d see on a piece of construction equipment rather than a gaming console. It’s definitely a bit of a downgrade compared to the now iconic Neon Red/Neon Blue configuration of the original Nintendo Switch, at least in my opinion.

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• Model numbers for three phones spotted
• Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Galaxy Flip 7 look likely
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Our Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 review and Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6 review will tell you we've been impressed by Samsung's foldable offerings this year, and now we have a better idea about what's coming through the course of 2025.

The team at Android Authority has been digging into the beta code for One UI 7 (Samsung's take on Android 15), and has discovered some interesting new model numbers that match up with numbers for the current phones.

We can see the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 and the Galaxy Z Flip 7 here – designated by the codenames SM-F966 and SM-F751, respectively – and it seems we're also getting a successor to the Galaxy Z Fold Special Edition.

That last phone, codename SM-F968, could perhaps get a global launch – unlike the model it's replacing, which is currently only available in South Korea. The current Z Fold SE is lighter and thinner than the Galaxy Z Fold 6, with better cameras and bigger screens, so we'd like to see the next iteration sold more widely.

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Unfortunately, these code snippets don't tell us too much about what's actually coming with these foldable phones. The names of the phones aren't even included, though Android Authority has made some educated guesses.

In fact, we haven't heard much at all about the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 and the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7. These phones do at least appear to be on the way, though it's not clear what we can look forward to in terms of upgrades.

For the time being at least, the focus is on the Samsung Galaxy S25 series, which we're expecting to get a grand unveiling at some point during January. This year the usual three models might get joined by a new Galaxy S25 Slim edition.

We might even get a tri-fold from Samsung sometime during 2025, the thinking being that it wants to push out more form factors and compete directly with the Huawei Mate XT. It's shaping up to be another busy year for Samsung phones.

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• Christmas Eve attack sees Cyberhaven Chrome extension hit
• Some data could have been exfiltrated, Cyberhaven systems secure
• Users are being told to change their passwords

Cyberhaven has confirmed its Google Chrome extension was the subject of a Christmas Eve cyberattack, exposing sensitive customer data like passwords and session tokens.

In a statement, the data loss prevention company noted the attack showed signs of being part of a “wider campaign” to target other companies, too.

The attack started as many others do – an employee fell for a phishing email and shared their credentials, giving the threat actor access to Cyberhaven’s systems.

Cyberhaven shares details of Christmas Eve attack

More specifically, the attacker obtained the worker’s Google Chrome Web Store credentials, allowing them to post a malicious version of its Chrome extension to the marketplace. Only version 24.10.4 was affected on Chrome-based browsers that auto-updated; the code was active between 1:32 AM UTC on December 25 and 2:50 AM UTC on December 26.

CEO Howard Ting said the compromise was detected by the firm’s security team at 11:54 PM UTC on Christmas Day – it was removed within an hour, noting, “I’m proud of how quickly our team reacted, with virtually everyone in the company interrupting their holiday plans to serve our customers, and acting with the transparency that is core to our company values.”

No other Cyberhaven systems, such as CI/CD processes and code signing keys, were compromised, however users’ cookies and authenticated sessions for certain targeted websites could have been exfiltrated.

Users are now being advised to maintain basic internet hygiene principles, such as ensuring that their extensions are up to date (in this case, version 24.10.5 or newer), reviewing logs for suspicious activity, and revoking or rotating all passwords that aren't FIDOv2.

The company has already implemented additional security measures to prevent similar future attacks and is actively cooperating with law enforcement.

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