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iStarUSA BPN-124K-SA front
The iStarUSA BPN-124K-SA is a 4-in-1 trayless hot-swap backplane that eases installation and maintenance. With an average street price around $88 it is a reasonably priced option.
Western Digital Red 5TB 6TB Launch
Today Western Digital is releasing both the WD Red 5TB and 6TB drives along with launching the Western Digital Pro line. This was expected given recent price drops and sightings in the forums but is exciting for NAS enthusiasts
Amazon T2 Instances and Intel C2550 time comparison
We took the new Amazon AWS T2 instances and an Intel Atom C2550 and ran them through the Linux-Bench script to see if there was evidence of throttling
ASUS P9A-I-C2550-SAS-4L-Overview
Our ASUS P9A-I/C2550/SAS/4L review. The platform combines an awesome set of features for storage platforms and very low power design.
Supermicro X9SKV-1125 Overview
The motherboard has 6 NICs including bypass mode, a 7-year service life and an embedded Xeon E3-1125C processor
Three Western Digital Red 3TB Drives SATA Side
The deal on Western Digital Red 4TB drives for $139.99 is back online and we have some recent experiences
Intel Xeon E5 Box Bunny
We benchmark the high performance Intel Xeon E5-1660 V2 with its 6C/ 12T and high clock speeds
Supermicro A1SAM-2750F Airflow Alignment
The Supermicro A1SAM-2750F is the first Intel Avoton C2750 solution we have seen in a mATX form factor. Supermicro gives us a great, low power processor with its four Intel i354 NICs, IPMI management, full size DIMM slots and two PCIe slots. This makes the A1SAM-2750F perhaps one of the most expandable Intel Atom C2000 platforms.
Gartner Server Market Q1-2014
A quick look at the Q1 2014 Server market share and the clear impact of the IBM-Lenovo deal announcement
STHbench 2013 Results Viewer
We now have an online results viewer which lets you interactively compare legacy data from our STHbench (2013) Linux benchmarking script