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Noctua NF-A6x25 - X10SDV and CSE-721TQ-250B
We take an Intel Xeon D based MicroLab platform and make it even quieter for home and office use
Samsung SM863 and PM863 960GB SSD
We recently spotted a great deal on larger Samsung PM863 1.92TB SSDs where they are being offered at $650 or about $0.30/GB. Here is the link to the listing with approximately 12 available at the time of this writing. Upon the launch of the new SSDs we published our Samsung PM863 and SM863 benchmarks. While this price is very similar...
Samsung PM1633a
Thank you to gigatexal on the STH forums for catching that Samsung is now shipping the 15.36TB SAS3 PM1633a SSD. You can see the official Samsung release here. This is the same drive we saw at Flash Memory Summit in August 2015. The PM1633a has write endurance rated at 1 full drive write per day  (DWPD) using Samsung's 3D...
Intel Xeon D Comparison Mar 2 2016
We have more of the official specs from the Intel Xeon D-1500 series including an updated version of our complete 4 core to 16 core comparison chart
STH Inaugural Meetup
On April 2, 2016 (one month from today) we are going to have the inaugural STH Meetup at Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, California.
Supermicro X11SAT-F - Feature Image
The Supermicro X11SAT-F stands out from the others with server quality components and the addition of IPMI which is useful for remote installs and managing a large number of workstations in a production environment.
HPE Website Feb 2016
There is still precious little public information out there on this one, but we have heard from several sources that HP is going to be removing many assets from the public HPE FTP site. The removal will occur on March 1, 2016. This includes patches and firmware for Hewlett Packard Enterprise products. In February 2014 we saw HP start to transition...
QNAP TVS-EC1280U-SAS-RP - linux-bench docker
We have the opportunity to review a QNAP TVS-EC1280U-SAS-RP and are publishing our first part focused on the software features of the 2U rackmount NAS unit
Intel Xeon D v Xeon E3-1200 V5
What is better, the Intel Xeon D-1500 or Xeon E3-1200 V5? We test both platforms and built a decision guide for the STH community to use
VIZIO M43-C1 on desk
We ditch two HP ZR30w 30" IPS monitors in favor of a $488 43" 4K Ultra HD TV as a primary monitor and explore our findings