We spotted a LSI RAID controller battery pack in one of our lab servers that became severely deformed over the years. That highlights the importance of maintaining RAID controller batteries
New Toshiba 96-Layer 4th generation BICS NAND is here. The first product with it will be the Toshiba XG6 NVMe SSD. QLC is coming from the company.
New Amazon AWS Z1d EC2 frequency optimized instances use Intel Xeon Scalable CPUs with high clock speeds for the EDA, HPC, and relational database hosting markets
We show the Dell EMC PowerEdge R7415 NVMe hot swap functionality in action. This is one of the first AMD EPYC 7001 series platforms to support the critical data center storage feature
We discuss how Intel and Micron announcing the imminent suspension of joint development for 3D XPoint may be good for AMD, IBM, Marvell, and others.
The new AWS R5 EC2 instances have up to 768GB and 96 vCPUs per instance, 25Gbps network bandwidth, and 3.1GHz Skylake-SP Intel Xeon Platinum all core turbo speeds. The AWS EC2 R5 instances are for in-memory analytics, and similar applications
By Q4 2018 we expect 8-core Intel Xeon E server SKUs to launch bringing twice the core count to LGA 1151 servers and workstations launched for the Intel Xeon E-2100 series
Our Dell EMC PowerEdge R7415 review shows why this is the top 2U AMD EPYC single socket platform on the planet today. The PowerEdge R7415 sports an enormous capacity for high-speed networking, NVMe storage, memory capacity, cores counts, and just about every other aspect that makes a server good.
Starting with pfSense 2.4.4 the features that were previously reserved for a $99/ year subscription will now be offered for free, with a key exception
We have our Intel Xeon Gold 5117 benchmarks and review. This 14 core Intel Xeon Scalable CPU left us wondering, why even bother with the SKU? We present benchmark data then talk about its place in the market.