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Yearly Archives: 2011

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...

Intel Xeon E3-1230 Sandy Bridge Benchmarks and Review

After publishing the first Sandy Bridge Xeon review of the E3-1220 a big question remained, what would the performance of hyper-threaded versions of the...

Intel 510 SSD, SandForce SF-2200 Preview, LSI 9265-8i 9285-8e Amahi 6 News Roundup

This week's storage news roundup includes news from Intel, SandForce/ OCZ, LSI and Amahi. The basic theme is, new generation SSDs and controllers are...

Building a 4U Dual Processor System with Multiple NICs and RAID Controllers

Building a dual processor (DP) server is not a tough task, but it does have a few considerations for anyone looking to build one...

Corsair Performance 3 Series P3-128 (120GB) Benchmarks and Review

Corsair’s Performance 3 series is a newer SATA III 6.0gbps drive that offers quite a bit of performance utilizing a Marvell controller. Marvell has...

CloudBerry Online (and Network) Backup for Small Business Server 2011 Essentials

One important storage principle that many people forget is that RAID is not a backup solution, it is a method of achieving performance targets,...
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