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Short and sweet: how to choose a RAID/HBA controller for the server

RAID controllers have not left and are not going to, on the contrary, hardware controllers for NVME and PCI Express drives (including M2 format drives) are entering the market. The abundance of drives and software features of RAID/HBA make you approach this choice as responsibly as possible, otherwise you may lose data. RAID controllers have not left and are not going to, on the contrary, hardware controllers for NVME and PCI Express drives (including M2 format drives) are entering the ...
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Server fans: what they are, how they work

Server fans play a key role in maintaining the temperature at an optimal level. They operate at high speeds to ensure sufficient airflow within the server system, thereby cooling it. Most server fans are designed to operate at different speeds, which significantly enhances their efficiency. This means that when the server system is under load, the server fans operate at higher speeds to increase cooling, and when the load is light, the speed decreases. The main function of server fans is to ...
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Lenovo ThinkAgile VX3320 review - a hyperconverged solution for simplified enterprise-wide vSAN deployment

Hyperconverged systems are rapidly gaining popularity and are already becoming the standard for building virtualization platforms in the corporate environment. Lenovo has released a special series of servers for installing and running VMware vSAN with tools for simplified administration and deployment at the customer's facility. The ideology of hyperconvergent solutions using VMware technologies has its advantages: this is a relatively low cost at the start, and the ability to scale almost ...
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Article about vertical wall-mounting of servers

An interesting solution for home laboratories, small test rooms or maintenance-free points where 1-2-3 pieces of equipment are placed, and every square centimeter is worth its weight in gold I often came up with the idea: why not place servers vertically, because if you do not have a special server rack, but have a 1U-4U machine, and even a full length of 655 mm, then this bandura will take up the entire room, the entire table or rack. No, I'm not saying that server cabinets are outdated and ...
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Palit GeForce GTX 1660 Super review: testing a novelty in computing and machine learning

The new series of video cards GTX 1660 Super is interesting, first of all, because of the high bandwidth GDDR6 memory. This is exactly what you need for machine learning tasks and work in Tensorflow. At a minimum, you can build your own Google Colab counterpart in a Mini-ITX package. In the fall of 2018, Nvidia released a line of RTX graphics cards based on chips codenamed Turing, which have built-in tensor and RT cores. The community of enthusiasts using conventional gaming graphics cards ...
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Synology DS1010+ review: keep your data in business class

... talking about a serious file server for small businesses. No, ... port aggregation mode. Where did the two dozen come from ... are not supported by the server, but otherwise the functionality ... which are embedded in the server at the software level. Perhaps ... removal of disks from the server. Generally, in the corporate ... applications by connecting to the server through a browser, and ... par with Thecus N5500. The server can send notifications about various ... for home use, I can add that the Synology DS1010+ ...
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AIT (Advanced Intelligent Tape) tape drives from Sony

The AIT format was developed by Sony based on helican-scan technology. It was the first to use built-in flash memory on a MIC (Memory-In-Cassette) cassette, which contains service information about the tape content and a data distribution map, which allows to optimize access to them. Like other modern formats, AIT uses a tracking system (ATF) to record tracks more densely. The AIT format was developed by Sony based on helican-scan technology. It was the first to use built-in flash memory on a ...
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HP BladeSystem c-class ultra-dense servers

Modern Hewlett Packard server blades provide maximum integration into existing infrastructure, while C-Class machines offer higher reliability and redundancy than typical rack solutions. Add to this all the necessary tools for monitoring and controlling servers, additional expansion modules, and you will understand why blade systems are replacing traditional ones. When designing a modern data processing center (DPC), you can often face the problem of limited space, and, as a consequence, the ...