Although Intel has been trying to obsolete the PCI bus in recent times with the Sandy Bridge desktop platforms not supporting the PCI bus natively, there are still an absolute ton of PCI slots available in the installed base and adding a PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapter is a very common use these days.
Two important notes about the Intel Pro/1000...
The Bromolow platform with Sandy Bridge E3 Xeons and C200 series chipsets provides a very low-power platform for small business and home servers. Starting with the new Intel Xeon E3-1230, users get both low power consumption as well as four cores and eight threads when combined with a motherboard, such as the ASUS P8B-X, yields a total cost of...
Fusion-io hits the street with a much anticipated initial public offering (IPO), Hitachi GST posts higher hard drive unit sales but lower revenue, Folding@Home's new BIG work units and ServeTheHome's second anniversary all made news this week.
Fusion-io's IPO a Success
On Thursday 9 June 2010 Fusion-io, a company I follow, had its initial public offering on the NYSE. The stock...
Many users have been finding themselves with brand new Sandy Bridge motherboards and the hard drive industry's now affordable 3TB drives only to see that the new drive only has 746GB available in even 64-bit Windows. I receive questions about why this happens on Hitachi, Western Digital, Seagate, and Samsung drives on a regular basis so I think this...
One question I have been getting a lot lately has been whether or not I think Apple's iCloud is going to be the end to the SMB/ Home storage server market. After all, many users do store their music, pictures, contacts and documents and etc. are often stored on network attached storage (NAS) devices. One thing users are constantly...
Today marks the second anniversary of ServeTheHome.com which was started on June 8, 2009. To mark the occasion here are some interesting facts:
1. During June 2009 ServeTheHome.com had 92 visitors. That is well under the average number of visitors the site receives each hour at this point.
2. On 8 June 2009 the first STH benchmark was posted of two...
The Eye-Fi Pro X2 8GB combines a 802.11n WiFi connection and 8GB of Class 6 SD card storage in a standard SDHC card package, delivering a unique value proposition in the process. Serious and recreational photographers alike know that today's flash storage is great in terms of digital photo storage but there are still memory constraints involved, especially with...
Intel's Q67 chipset is mainly targeted at the corporate desktop and the ASUS P8Q67-M DO/CSM is no exception. With a Q67 based board and appropriate Sandy Bridge Core CPU, one is able to bring remote management to the desktop. Intel's vPro/ AMT technology allows a remote administrator to log into a machine and perform troubleshooting tasks, including the ability...
Unfortunately client commitments meant I was unable to make Computex this year but I have been following coverage. There were a few interesting announcements that I think are worth sharing thoughts on including those from Microsoft, Intel, ARM partners and QNAP.
Microsoft Windows 8 Previewed
One very important "unveiling" that happened this week was Microsoft showing off the new Windows 8...
The Eye-Fi Pro X2 is a cool product that I will be featuring a bit more on ServeTheHome.com. For those that are not familiar with the product, it allows one to transfer images and video from a SecureDigital card enabled camera to a PC, Android, or iOS device via WiFi. While the Eye-Fi Pro X2 model I have been...