Articles by Desire Athow, Managing Editor, TechRadar Pro | TechRadar

Désiré has been musing and writing about technology during a career spanning four decades. He dabbled in website builders and web hosting when DHTML and frames were in vogue and started narrating about the impact of technology on society just before the start of the Y2K hysteria at the turn of the last millennium.

Then followed a weekly tech column in a local business magazine in Mauritius, a late night tech radio programme called Clicplus and a freelancing gig at the now-defunct, Theinquirer, with the late Mike Magee as mentor. After an eight-year stint at ITProPortal.com, where he discovered the joys of global techfests and transformed the publication into one of the biggest tech B2B independent publishers, Désiré moved to TechRadar Pro where he has been the editor for nine years.

He has an affinity for anything hardware and staunchly refuses to stop writing reviews of obscure products or cover niche B2B software-as-a-service providers. He is an avid deal hunter and can be found lurking around on various deals forums.

Articles by: Desire Athow

Vivaldi browser review

Vivaldi Browser Review: Features, Usage, and Competition

By Desire Athow last updated 24 July 25

Updated Our detailed review of the Vivaldi browser is all you’ll need to decide if this fast and secure platform is best suited to cater to your online activities or not.

Google Chrome browser review

Google Chrome Review: Features, Usage, and Competition

By Desire Athow last updated 24 July 25

Updated Read our thorough review of Google Chrome and learn all about its best features, options, and security protocols before you give it a try.

Opera browser review

Opera Browser Review: Features, Usage, and Competition

By Desire Athow last updated 24 July 25

Updated Check out our detailed review of Opera to see how this feature-packed, lightweight, and secure browser can supercharge your browsing experience.

Firefox browser review

Mozilla Firefox Review: Features, Usage, and Competition

By Desire Athow last updated 24 July 25

Updated Firefox offers top-notch security and a seamless browsing experience. Read our detailed review to find out how this memory-efficient browser can transform the internet for you.

Microsoft Edge web browser review

Microsoft Edge Review: Features, Usage, and Competition

By Desire Athow last updated 24 July 25

Updated Our Edge browser review will help you decide if its energy-efficient model and lag-free performance is worth the download.

Kioxia LC9 245.76TB SSD

Kioxia unveils 246TB SSD behemoth — the LC 9 is the largest SSD ever launched and can store 52,000 DVD movies

By Desire Athow published 22 July 25

LC9 snatched the capacity crown from Solidigm for now, but the race to the storage champion is only getting started.

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Best router VPNs

By Sam Dawson last updated 21 July 25

Updated Whether you're working with a preconfigured VPN router or want to set up hardware yourself, my top router VPN picks have you covered.

Space Forge Satellite

Could they be the next Arm? Space Forge innovative nursery-in-the-stars could spell new generations of super materials and yes, sky’s the limit

By Desire Athow published 20 July 25

Budding British tech startup could help bring to life ultra-high quality semiconductors

SPhotonix 5D Memory Crystal

'A 1,000-year-plus memory crystal': SPhotonix’s CEO tells us how its glass-based data tech is the future of high-density archival storage

By Desire Athow published 19 July 25

We talk durability, density, and the future of data storage with Ilya Kazensky, CEO of SPhotonix.

English astronaut Tim Peake (L) and English musician Brian May photographed at the Space Rocks event at the IndigO2 in London, on April 22, 2018.

British astronaut Tim Peake wants to ‘put the data centers into space’: Here’s why

By Desire Athow published 18 July 25

I discuss AI, data centers, nuclear fusion, ChatGPT and saxophone playing with Tim Peake/

Hostinger's exclusive free web hosting deal gets 50GB SSD storage

By Desire Athow last updated 17 July 25

The world’s best free web hosting deal is exclusive to TechRadar

Adata UE800 1TB SSD on a window sill during our test and review process

Best USB flash drive 2025: Quick and compact storage in your pocket

By Desire Athow last updated 3 July 25

Buying Guide We tested out best USB sticks and flash drives for speed, storage, and portability.

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Best lifetime Cloud Storage deals (February 2026)

By Desire Athow last updated 25 June 25

Updated Great if you don’t want to pay a subscription every month for cloud storage.

Sphotonix media

‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ gets surprise guest appearance: a revolutionary 360TB silica storage media

By Desire Athow published 31 May 25

“Superman memory crystal” makes unexpected debut in Tom Cruise's Hollywood’s spring blockbuster.

OWC Mercury Pro LTO

New 30TB tape is a welcome hold-my-beer moment for Petabyte-scale storage as Seagate and Western Digital smash HDD capacity barrier

By Desire Athow published 29 May 25

‘When I want to do it, how I want to do it’ seems to be LTO’s motto as 10th generation tape goes live with a whimper

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Mailbox.org secure email review

By Desire Athow last updated 6 May 25

Discover the power of one of the world’s leading secure email service providers in our Mailbox.org review.

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How to buy a domain name for your website: a step-by-step guide

By Desire Athow last updated 1 May 25

UPDATED This step-by-step guide will show you exactly how to buy and register a domain name for your website.

One of the fastest external hard drive picks, the Seagate Portable 4TB External Hard Drive

Fastest external hard drive of 2025

By Desire Athow last updated 14 April 25

Updated We put the fastest external HDDs to the test - perfect for boosting performance and storage capacity

A Crucial T705 SSD on a pink desk mat

Fastest SSD of 2025

By Desire Athow last updated 14 April 25

We benchmarked the fastest solid-state drives for boosting laptop boot times and overall performance.

OWC Mercury Pro LTO

US Government says it will save $1m/year by getting rid of magnetic tape – so is there still a place for tape in 2025?

By Desire Athow last updated 14 April 25

DOGE X post has attracted hundreds of comments, from proponents and opponents of tape.

Huawei's journey may be the blueprint for a post-Trump, non-US centric technology world

By Desire Athow published 8 April 25

What would happen if the biggest Chinese companies followed Huawei’s footsteps?

World Backup Day 2025

World Backup Day 2025: All the news, updates and advice from our experts

By Mike Moore last updated 1 April 25

We rounded up all the best news, advice and more for World Backup Day 2025.

Block YouTube ads on your PC or smartphone for free in just 30 seconds and get Amazon gift cards

By Desire Athow published 1 April 25

Microsoft Edge has a little-known ‘feature’ that allows you to earn money and block YouTube ads and yes, it's 100% free and legal.

NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition

The most expensive Nvidia Blackwell offering is getting a huge price cut - but I'm disappointed some other cards aren't seeing the same

By Desire Athow last updated 27 March 25

Nvidia’s top of the range graphics card is perfect for visualization workloads - if you can afford it.

AMD Ryzen 9950X

I analyzed 25 AMD Zen 4 and Zen 5 CPUs and the Ryzen 9 9900X is the best of them all right now: Here’s why

By Desire Athow published 25 March 25

The Ryzen 9 9900X is the best value for money Zen 5 CPU from AMD's stable for a wide variety of workloads

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