Posted on 18 November 2010. Tags: ICH10R, intel ssd, intel x25-m, raid 0, SSD, windows
Recently, I updated the benchmark numbers on this site to include an Intel X25-M G2 80GB but alluded to having two drives free. Instead of doing a “standard” X25-M G2 80GB in RAID 0 piece, I decided to look at something I get asked quite often, Intel ICH10R/ ICH9R RAID 0 or Windows Software RAID 0 (stripe) for SSDs. To compare the X25-M G2 80GB numbers below with the Indilinx and Intel X25-V 40GB numbers found on this site, one should use the ICH10R numbers contained within. Read the full story
Posted in Disk Subsystem Performance
Posted on 16 November 2010. Tags: intel ssd, intel x25-m, SSD, SSDs
Although Intel will be releasing the X25-M G3 SSDs in the next few months, I get asked frequently to provide some X25-M G2 numbers for comparison with the other SSD benchmarks on this site. As I am currently working on a new NAS testbed, I had two Intel X25-M G2 80GB‘s that got freed up and I am able to provide some numbers. Read the full story
Posted in Disk Subsystem Performance
Posted on 23 May 2010. Tags: baseboard, BMC, cpu utilization, h55, h57, heatsink fan, intel core i3-530, intel ssd, intel stock, intel xeon, intel xeon x3440, management controller, motherboard review, picopsu, power consumption, real server, server hardware, SSD, Supermicro, Supermicro x8sil-f, wall socket, watt power, webgui, x25, x8sil-f, X8SIL-F v1.02
To update to my review of the Supermicro X8SIL-F, I took some Kill-A-Watt power consumption numbers with the Supermicro X8SIL-F to answer a few questions regarding power consumption with real server hardware compared to consumer-level hardware. Below I am focusing on idle power consumption as with the Intel Core i3-530, Xeon X3440, and other LGA 1156 CPUs the CPU utilization while running a NAS application will be very low. After a bit of testing I found the i3-530 again leading the pack in idle power consumption and the Xeon X3440 turning in very respectable idle power consumption numbers.
Posted in Low Power Servers, Motherboards, Server CPUs