Solid-state storage is getting cheaper almost by the day, so it is no surprise that users are starting to put more than one SSD in their workstations and desktops. Personally I have had at least three SSDs in my main workstation for two years now. Thermaltake sent its solution, the Thermaltake MAX-1542 hotswap enclosure that puts four 2.5" hot...
Today I am taking a quick peek at the new range of Intel C600 chipset based server motherboards from Tyan for the new Intel Xeon E5-2600 series CPUs. Having been a fan of Tyan motherboards for some years except the last couple of years where Supermicro have come into their own in the server market. Did Tyan deliver a full range...
A few weeks ago I decided that I was going to put a renewed effort into building useful tools for ServeTheHome.com. The first tool is relatively simple, it's a RAID calculator that allows you to pick RAID levels then computes the resulting array capacity. Feel free to check out ServeTheHome's RAID Calculator and give some feedback on the future...
AMD is following Intel's Xeon E3 strategy for uniprocessor servers and is announcing the availability of the AMD Opteron 3200 series. The Opteron 3200 is a Bulldozer-based server CPU that utilizes one of AMD's mainstream CPU sockets, socket AM3+. This is very much like what Intel does with its current Xeon E3-1200 line and is something I have been eagerly awaiting...
Today we have another installment in Pieter Schaar's LSI series. Pieter is perhaps best known as the one behind laptopvideo2go.com. He has been a regular contributor in the STH forums and has been detailing his learning, specifically in the area of LSI controllers in the forums and in series such as his IBM M1015 series pieces.
The LSI9266 comes in...
As I already mentioned, the new Sandy Bridge Xeons are fast, especially with two high-end Xeon E5-2690's in a single system. One thing I mentioned in the previous dual Intel Xeon E5-2690 piece is that I had yet to test the larger Folding@Home units and get new power consumption figures with the machines. Today I decided to publish a little...
Today we are going to take a quick look at the AMD Opteron 6128 CPU which has become a very cost-effective building block for a multi-socket, high-memory system. Intel's new Xeon E5-2600 series is great. I did a Xeon E5-2687W single socket preview and a Dual socket Xeon E5-2690 review and the performance was awesome. Intel knows that it...
Several readers each week read articles about Supermicro IPMIview and various mentions each week and want to give it a try but cannot find where to download the program. I will note, many things like KVM consoles will not work with IPMI 2.0 from other vendors, but you can see the machines using its search feature so the utility...
Recently I had some performance previews of the Xeon E5-2687W which one could easily tell were a bit slanted. The E5-2687W is a 150w workstation part, and not something we would expect to see a lot of in single CPU configurations. Today we will look at some preview numbers from dual Xeon E5-2690 CPUs, Intel's current LGA 2011 dual...
Last week I took a look at the Intel Pro/1000 PT gigabit Ethernet adapter. This week I am going to show off the Intel Gigabit CT Desktop adapter which runs around $35 new (see Amazon for Intel Gigabit CT Desktop adapter) and is a go-to adapter for users looking for high levels of compatibility. The Gigabit CT Ethernet adapter is...