Seagate today confirmed rumors aired by the Wall Street Journal yesterday (and predicted by ServeTheHome last month after the Western Digital - Hitachi GST announcement) when it announced its plans to purchase Samsung's hard drive business for $1.375B. What does this mean to the industry?
As was noted yesterday, the deal makes a lot of sense. Samsung is focusing on...
Although the Intel Xeon L5640 is a lot of processor with very low power consumption requirements, the Intel Xeon X5670 is a much higher-end part. Although quad socket capable, the X5670 is also dual socket capable and fills a position that the Xeon E series does not scale to at this time. The L5640 was fast, but let’s see...
Today the Wall Street Journal reported that Samsung was mulling the sale of its hard drive unit. Seagate has been rumored as a potential buyer which makes a lot of sense. With the pending Western Digital - Hitachi tie-up it makes sense. As ServeTheHome noted at the time of the Western Digital - Hitachi GST announcement:
"At the end of...
Here is a quick roundup of interesting news this week:
Iron Mountain Shutters Public Cloud Storage and Nirvanix Reaches Out to Stranded Customers
Perhaps one of the scariest things for anyone storing data in the cloud is what happens if that cloud provider ceases operations. Unlike an internal IT department shutting down a system, there is less control over third parties....
The Opteron 6166 HE is a dodeca (12) core CPU running at 1.8GHz. Utilizing the Magny Cours G34 platform, the Opteron 6166 HE is dual and quad socket ready. In each package there are essentially two Opteron 4100 series CPUs stitched together that combine for 6MB of L2 cache and 12MB of L3 cache per package alongside access to...
The Tyan S8236WGM3NR packs two socket G34 CPUs and up to 24 Magny-Cours cores and sixteen DDR3 DIMM slots in a 1U/ 2U friendly form factor. One area admittedly ServeTheHome has been lacking in is covering the AMD G34 and C32 platforms. I plan to do a much larger piece on some CPUs in the near future, but I...
The first P67 board I purchased was the ASUS P8P67 Pro. At the time, it was a close race for me between the P8P67 Pro and P8P67 Deluxe decided primarily by retailer availability. Two months later, I finally purchased the P8P67 Deluxe with the Cougar Point B3 stepping and am able to do some comparisons. Based on the P67...
The Intel Xeon E3-1270 is essentially the same as Intel’s Core i7-2600 series CPU with the omission of integrated GPU capabilities, which cuts 15w from the chip’s TDP and adds support for unbuffered ECC DIMMs. Intel also offers the Xeon E3-1275, which includes the integrated GPU and consequently adds 15w to the TDP of the...
Major news this week including the Intel Xeon E3-1200 series and Bromolow platform launch, Microsoft releasing a free iSCSI target for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2, Small Business Server 2011 Essentials, and Windows Home Server 2011 moving to RTM status and being released to OEMs, TechNet and MSDN subscribers.
Intel Xeon E3 CPU and Bromolow...
The Intel Xeon E3-1240 is the second step up in the Sandy Bridge Xeon E3 series when looking at processors that include Hyper-Threading. As the Xeon E3-1220 (no HT), Xeon E3-1230 and Xeon E3-1280 have been reviewed previously, this review will be mostly performance based. For more information on the Sandy Bridge Xeon E3 series and Bromolow platform including...