Intel Xeon E5-2670 (V1) prices are still dropping. They are now around $100 each and sometimes less. This is about half of their price just 10 weeks ago
Prediction: 2016 will start to see the rise of 10Gbase-T and Ngbase-T in smaller networks and 1 Gigabit Ethernet will no longer be fast enough for even Wi-Fi
The Supermicro X11SSZ-QF has the unique ability to pair consumer Intel Core/ Celeron/ Pentium series processors with a server grade IPMI implementation
There are quite a number of STH readers using Pingdom free & paid options. Pingdom provides a number of free tools, but their primary service is on uptime monitoring and alerting. Pingdom is significantly curtailing their free plan's features.
pfSense is a project we work with quite a bit and we just got word that pfSense 2.2.6 was released. This new version has several security and bug fixes.
We benchmark the 6w TDP Intel Pentium N3700 processor and find an interesting impact of cooling on the chip's performance
Our review of the QCT QuantaMesh T1048-LY4A 1Gb/ 10Gb Ethernet switch we have been using the datacenter lab for three months now.
With around 140 hdparm submissions after our original post and an absolute myriad of drives tested, we learned quite a bit and are making the data available for anyone to view.
Our review of the Icy Dock ToughArmor EX MB491SKL-B 2.5" to 3.5" bay hot swap drive solution