New Cavium FastLinQ 45000 25GbE and 100GbE adapters are out with RDMA and DPDK support enabling next-generation server I/O in popular form factors
Microsemi SmartRoC 3100 and SmartIOC 2100 details are not out. The new SAS3 controllers can support up to 24 drives plus two boot drives on a single card
We test SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB v. a Samsung Fit 32GB USB 3.0 drives to test which is a better boot device for your server or storage/ networkign appliance
If you are new to data center power circuits, we have the simple guide to figure out how much power you can actually use in your new rack
We spotted dual socket Cavium ThunderX2 systems in the wild and wanted to share the view with our STH community. The next gen has some great new features
Our ASRock X370 Killer SLI/ac motherboard review. We test the system with various workstation benchmarks and even load VMware Workstation 12 Pro
We analyze the value proposition of the Intel Xeon E3-1200 V6 family both in terms of standalone CPU costs and in the context of total system costs
The latest Intel Xeon E3-1200 V6 provides an incremental improvement with the company claiming a 56% performance boost over 4 generation/ 5 year old V2 SKUs
Intel Optane Memory m.2 SSDs are launched bringing 3D XPoint technology to the consumer space. Intel also released some client workload profiling data
Our review of the Innodisk SATADOM-SL 3ME3 V2 32GB drive including benchmarks. These small SSDs minimize drive bays needed for VMware and Linux servers