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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 No, I'm not saying that server cabinets are outdated and ...
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Synology UC3200 Review: affordable dual-controller iSCSI storage

First dual-controller storage from Synology, marketed as iSCSI storage for virtualization hosts. We ... . Each node is a separate server assembled on a 4-core ... Motherboard: ASRock Rack EPYCD8-2T Network Card: Intel X550-T2 Memory: 48GB ... : VMWare ESXi 6.7U3 Windows Server 2016 iSCSI Connection LUN file system ... Thin Provision type in Windows Server 2016 and look at the ... it to the guest Windows Server 2016 for testing. The virtual ... company already uses a Synology Server and would like to purchase ...
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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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QNAP TS-2483XU-RP review: 24-disk head unit NAS

... amounts of data. The storage system under consideration today ... QTier function for automatically dividing storage space into layers: slow ... Yes, of course all storage manufacturers have them, but QNAP ... replicate snapshots to external data storage, thus replacing backups. Snapshots ... Motherboard: ASRock Rack EPYCD8-2T Network Card: Intel X520-DA2 Memory: ... TS256GMTS800 256Gb OS: Windows Server 2016 iSCSI Connection LUN file system - ... load, its intensity and storage architecture. Some experts believe ...
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Aquantia AQtion AQC107 vs Intel X550-T2 - comparing 10G interfaces in iSCSI and CIFS file operations

... off, Dedupe off. Windows Server 2016 (8Gb iSCSI LUN на RAMDISK) Client ... x64 IOmeter for iSCSI CrystalDisk Benchmark for CIFS The server has a ... the processor can handle any iSCSI and NFS traffic, but ... AQtion AQC-107 have any iSCSI or NFS offloading declared, and ... huge load on the network card in file server mode. Testing The first ... a little-known integrated chip. ISCSI tests confirm what you've ... both MTU values. In the iSCSI test, we were able ... typical situation in which the storage system runs in a virtual ...
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Huawei OceanStor 2200 V3 review - entry-level block virtualization storage

This SAN storage system has many features that make it worth paying attention to. First of all, this is the RAID 2.0+ technology, thanks to which in our testing, RAID 5 survived a fall of 6 drives! In addition, this is an extended work with snapshots, because each of them can be mounted as a separate LUN, automatic LUN reduction and much more. Huawei storage systems are relatively new, and today the Chinese manufacturer successfully competes with brands such as Dell/EMC, Netapp and HPE. ...
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How to distinguish 10-Gigabit network card Intel X520-DA2 from Chinese fakes

10-Gigabit networks are becoming more common even in the simplest IT projects, where there is a desire to save every ruble. Intel network cards are used more often than any other, but unfortunately, in China they have learned to fake them. It is easy to distinguish the original from a fake, and this is known to both customers and contractors. We will tell you how not to buy a fake network card, where fakes of such equipment come from, what you need to pay attention to when buying, and what you ...