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  • Portable Storage Carried to Excess March 20, 2009 – 1:00 AM

    Do you want a flash SSD drive with additional USB connectivity, a portable dual-drive 2.5” RAID solution, or external flash storage? We looked at ... Read more

  • Does Power-Saving Technology Kill SSD Performance? March 12, 2009 – 2:00 AM

    Processor speed matters. We found that a fast solid state disk drive, such as Intel’s X25-E, can be greatly impaired by a system running with all ... Read more

  • Hacking The HP EX470/475 MediaSmart Servers March 11, 2009 – 2:00 AM

    HP's MediaSmart Servers are basically low-power PCs running Windows Home Server software from a corner of your house. Ed Tittel takes his apart ... Read more

  • Supermicro 5046A-XB: X58 Workstation Barebones March 6, 2009 – 2:00 AM

    We’ve already established that Intel’s Core i7 is the way to go for enthusiasts looking for lots of A/V encoding muscle. Supermicro takes ... Read more

  • Accelerate Your Hard Drive By Short Stroking March 5, 2009 – 2:00 AM

    Do you think that flash SSDs will take over the enterprise HDD segment soon? Not so fast! We looked at how hard drive I/O performance can be ... Read more

  • AMD FirePro V8700: High-End Workstation Graphics March 4, 2009 – 2:00 AM

    AMD's recently-released FirePro V8700 centers on the same RV770 GPU as the Radeon HD 4870. We test this new workstation card against its desktop ... Read more

  • Intel’s X25-E SSD Walks All Over The Competition February 27, 2009 – 2:00 AM

    Intel's new X25-E professional flash SSD is a rocket when it comes to fast I/O performance. Is Intel now the source of the best server drive? We ... Read more

  • Can The Flash-Based ioDrive Redefine Storage Performance? February 26, 2009 – 2:00 AM

    The ioDrive represents flash memory storage connected to its host system via PCI Express. The product offers revolutionary performance, but does ... Read more

  • ASUS Eee PC 1000HE Netbook - A Home and Office Powerhouse? February 25, 2009 – 1:10 PM

    Vendors of small, light and allegedly underpowered netbooks promote them as browsing tools, best suited for web browsing and email.They’re only ... Read more

  • Promise NS4300N: NAS For Small Offices February 7, 2009 – 2:00 AM

    Promise is known for its RAID controllers, but how the company will fare long-term on the NAS market remains to be seen. We took a closer look at ... Read more

  • Intel’s 24-Core, 14-Drive Modular Server Reviewed January 30, 2009 – 2:00 AM

    Intel's MFSYS25 modular server promises small- and medium-sized businesses high reliability, resource optimization, and multi-core computing ... Read more

  • Highpoint Takes On Adaptec's SAS Controller December 19, 2008 – 7:00 AM

    Professional hardware can be expensive, but are cost effective business products really an alternative? We compared Highpoint’s new RocketRAID ... Read more

  • SAS Storage: High-Performance Hard Drives August 26, 2008 – 2:30 AM

    While people keep looking at flash SSDs, a lot has been going on in the hard drive space as well. The new enterprise drives by Hitachi and ... Read more

  • Iomega And Quantum Tackle Backup August 1, 2008 – 4:10 AM

    Are you in danger of catastrophic data loss? We look at feature-rich hard disk backup solutions aimed at small businesses from Iomega and Quantum. Read more

  • Super-Cooled Quantum Computing Is Coming July 24, 2008 – 3:40 AM

    It’s very small, very cold and very hard to program; D-Wave says it’s the first working quantum computer and it recognizes images.Read more

  • SIPEW 2008: All About Benchmarking July 23, 2008 – 2:40 AM

    We looked behind the curtain of SPEC, the largest benchmarking organization, and visited its 2008 Performance Workshop in Darmstadt, Germany, ... Read more

  • Will SSDs Take Over The Enterprise? July 17, 2008 – 11:00 PM

    What can flash SSDs do for high-end enterprise storage? To find out, we compared eight state-of-the-art Seagate Cheetah 15K.5 drives with eight ... Read more

  • SMB RAID for $49: Ciprico VST Pro July 16, 2008 – 6:00 AM

    Remember RAIDCore? The flexible storage architecture is now available as a software package that transforms many motherboard SATA controllers ... Read more

  • Nvidia's CUDA: The End of the CPU? June 18, 2008 – 9:40 AM

    CUDA software enables GPUs to do tasks normally reserved for CPUs. We look at how it works and its real and potential performance advantages.Read more

  • HP Puts 1000 Cores in a Single Rack June 11, 2008 – 1:40 PM

    Two servers per blade enable 1000 cores without special cooling, for Web 2.0 apps and Hollywood special effects..Read more

  • High Powered Web Servers from HP and IBM May 23, 2008 – 1:00 PM

    Most Web 2.0 services are built on cheap, off-the shelf servers. IBM and HP think standardized servers, water cooling and petabytes of disk are a ... Read more

  • External RAID Storage May 2, 2008 – 1:00 AM

    iSCSI and SAS storage are flexible and powerful — but expensive. We looked at two direct attached storage solution kits from Accusys and AMCC/3Ware.Read more

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