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Intel Xeon D Broadwell DE Package Over A LGA 3647 Socket
We show how much bigger the new Intel LGA3647 socket is compared to Broadwell series sockets. There is a new twist: a lack of latches on the socket.
Proxmox VE 4.3 SSD Wear Leveling And Reallocated Sectors
The Proxmox VE 4.3 release has some minor improvements to the GUI and underpinnings. We do like the new SSD SMART wear out monitoring feature for major SSD manufacturers
Samsung 750 EVO 120GB Drives Front And Back
We are doing our first SSD endurance experiment with two Samsung 750 EVO 120GB SSDs. These are modern planar TLC NAND SSDs.
asustor-as1002t
We review the Asustor AS1002T 2-Bay NAS unit which is targeted at home use. We cover the performance installation and features of the NAS in our review
NVIDIA Xavier Announcement
At NVIDIA's European GTC 2016 the company announced a new ARM based SoC for automotive applications. NVIDIA has been successful in the automotive space, powering screens such as those found on the Tesla Model S. The company sees a much bigger market as the automotive industry pushes for autonomous driving. By combining a multi-core ARM compute, its next generation Volta...
Supermicro 5018A-LTN4 internal view
We take a look at a low power networking appliance, the Supermicro SYS-5018A-LTN4, which is the lowest cost Intel QuickAssist platform we have seen to date
Supermicro 2U Ultra Server 24x NVMe in Rack SYS-2028U-TN24RT+
If you wanted to see a technology inflection point, this is it. With 24 inexpensive Intel NVMe SSDs (same $/GB as SATA) we hit over 3M IOPS and 25GB/s reads
Mozilla Firefox Eating SSD
Firefox has been observed to writing tens of GB per day even on inactive/ idling workstations. If you use Firefox and a SSD, we can show how to limit writes
We take a quick tour of the HPE/ HP Moonshot web administration interface so you can see what these large hyperscale systems look like
SNIA Swordfish
With the release of SNIA Swordfish the storage industry now has a tailored extension of Redfish APIs to cover storage management.