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Monthly Archives: March, 2011

How to Create a TrueCrypt Encrypted External Storage Drive USB or eSATA

Many users end up using external removable media for their server's important data. Oftentimes this can be done as part of a manual off-site...

Supermicro SC842TQ-665B 4U Rackmount Hotswap Chassis Review

Supermicro contacted me about reviewing their SC842TQ-665B chassis a few weeks ago and I thought it would be a good departure from the pure...

Intel Xeon E5606 80w Quad Core Dual CPU Benchmarks and Review

As part of its Q1'11 CPU roll-out, Sandy Bridge was perhaps Intel's biggest announcement. Intel also released the E5603, E5606, and E5607 CPUs which...

Intel Xeon E3-1280 Sandy Bridge Benchmarks and Review

Up for benchmarking today is the Intel Xeon E3-1280 Sandy Bridge based Xeon processor. Interestingly enough, this is the highest stock clocked Sandy Bridge...

Western Digital-Hitachi, NetApp-LSI,Fusion-io 1.4m IOPS News for the Week

This week was full of M&A news, but also saw some new features on ServeTheHome. Also, Fusion-io and Supermicro teamed up to create an...

Intel Xeon W3550 Benchmarks and Review

On tap for today is benchmarking the Xeon W3550 LGA 1366 UP server CPU. Recently I have been looking at the new Sandy Bridge...

NetApp Buys LSI Engenio External Storage Systems Business

After today's markets' close NetApp announced the purchase of LSI's Engenio External Storage Systems Business for $480million in cash.The motivation behind this is that...

Unbuffered versus Registered ECC Memory – Difference between ECC UDIMMs and RDIMMs

Today, the vast majority of memory used by desktops, notebooks, and mobile devices is unbuffered non-ECC (Error Checking and Correction) DRAM. In fact, unless...

Supermicro X8DTH-6F Motherboard Review Dual LGA 1366 Xeon LSI SAS2008 Dual IOH 7 PCIe Slots IPMI 2.0

The Supermicro X8DTH-6F motherboard is a substantial dual processor (DP) motherboard loaded with on board features and expansion possibilities. Users looking for a low-end...

Western Digital buys Hitachi GST for $4.3 billion – Patrick’s Take

As someone who worked on the Seagate-Maxtor merger a few years ago, I was  a bit worried to see this morning the news that...
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