Buyer’s Guides
Amazon EC2 Cloud Compute Instances Benchmarked w/ Rackspace Comparison
Benchmarking the Amazon EC2 cloud compute instances to see top to bottom performance. We also added Rackspace cloud compute instances to the mix to compare
Rackspace Cloud Benchmarks – 512MB through 30GB Instances Compared
Benchmarking results from the Rackspace Cloud using our Linux benchmarking suite. We tested every Next Generation Rackspace instance from 512MB to 30GB
Featured Home Virtualization Lab: PigLover’s Playground
Today we are featuring a home virtualization lab: PigLover's Playground from the STH forums. It runs a full virtualizaiton lab including 10GbE interconnects
Cloud Compute for Under a Quarter Per Hour – Amazon AWS EC2 v. Rackspace
Benchmarking Amazon AWS EC2 instances and Rackspace cloud servers that cost under a quarter per hour to operate.
2.5″ Drives in 3.5″ Hot-Swap Drive Bays – Two Good and Three Bad Drive Adapter Options
2.5" drives in 3.5" hot swap bays - good and bad drive adapter options reviewed
Picking the Right 3.5″ to 2.5″ Adapter for SATA/ SAS Drives
A key consideration when you want to put a 2.5" SATA SSD into a 3.5" server drive sled is the offset of the SATA and power connectors with the adapter
Answered: Can I use one CPU in a dual processor motherboard?
Ever wonder if you can use only a single processor in a dual CPU motherboard? Here are the impacts of using a single CPU in a dual processor motherboard:
External SAS/ SATA Disk Chassis Wiring – Part 2
In External SAS/SATA Disk Chassis Wiring – Part 1 we looked at wiring a server with the cables and adapters needed to connect to an external SAS/SATA disk chassis. Now we can move on to wiring up the JBOD disk chassis ...
External SAS/SATA Disk Chassis Wiring – Part 1
You’ve decided to build your own external hard drive chassis. You bought your drives and a bare chassis to house them. You’ve read Patrick’s first and second build articles plus my article on the Supermicro ...
Building a server? Recent deals on RAID parts IBM ServeRAID, LSI MegaRAID
Many users of this site purchase server pulls of IBM ServeRAID and LSI MegaRAID cards to complete systems. A common focus is on RAID controller server pulls. LSI SAS 2008 and LSI SAS 2108 based cards are very popular since they...
