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Western Digital's VelociRaptor 1TB hard drive by Geoff Gasior — 7:00 AM on April 16, 2012 Is there any hope for high-performance mechanical drives? We test WD's latest 10k-RPM VelociRaptor 1TB against a diverse array of competitors to find out. Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Servers Workstations	161
OCZ's RevoDrive 3 X2 240GB solid-state drive by Geoff Gasior — 4:48 PM on March 26, 2012 Using virtualization voodoo, the RevoDrive 3 X2 combines four SandForce-based SSDs on a single PCIe card purportedly capable of transfer rates up to 1500MB/s. ... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Servers Workstations	61
A closer look at the new AMD by Scott Wasson — 4:08 PM on February 9, 2012 AMD has a new management team and a new direction. They recently shared their vision for the company's future, and we were there, listening... Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs Graphics Servers	78
Intel's Xeon X7560 and Dell's R810 server by Scott Wasson — 10:41 AM on April 25, 2011 Intel's eight-core Nehalem-EX processor and Dell's R810 chassis combine to form a new class of 2P server, with huge memory capacity at a lower... Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs Systems Servers	28
Exploring the impact of memory speed on Sandy Bridge performance by Geoff Gasior — 10:09 AM on February 9, 2011 K-Series Sandy Bridge CPUs have unlocked memory multipliers that make it easy to take advantage of faster memory modules. We explore performance with... Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs Memory	124
A tribute to my under-appreciated home file servers by Geoff Gasior — 11:37 PM on August 19, 2010 I spend an almost embarrassing amount of time in front of my desktop PC. It's my workhorse, and the system that I endeavor to... Type: Blog post Tags: Storage Systems Servers	46
Opteron 4100 series aims for the clouds by Scott Wasson — 1:07 AM on June 23, 2010 After telegraphing its intentions for quite some time, AMD followed through today with the official unveiling of the Opteron 4100 series of processors. Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs Servers Workstations	48
A short tour of Kingston's Hsinchu factory by Cyril Kowaliski — 12:59 AM on June 22, 2010 During our stay in Taiwan earlier this month, we hopped on a bus to Kingston's Hsinchu factory, where memory modules and SD flash cards Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Memory	19
Western Digital's VelociRaptor VR200M hard drive by Geoff Gasior — 7:00 AM on April 6, 2010 Every time WD has released a new Raptor, the performance bar for desktop hard drives has been raised. But the new 600GB VelociRaptor VR200M enters... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Servers Workstations	132
The pool wants you! by Mike Uchima — 9:52 AM on November 25, 2009 As Chicago said back in 1970, does anybody really know what time it is?... Type: Blog post Tags: Internet Linux-Unix Networking	39
A look at four X25-E Extreme SSDs in RAID by Geoff Gasior — 10:17 PM on January 26, 2009 Intel's X25-E Extreme SSD is easily the fastest flash drive on the market. Heck, it's just about the quickest 32GB you can plug into a... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Servers Workstations	92
ACard's ANS-9010 Serial ATA RAM disk by Geoff Gasior — 11:08 PM on January 20, 2009 We haven't heard much about RAM disks since Gigabyte's i-RAM, but now ACard has one that supports up to 64GB of DDR2 memory, has dual... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Servers Workstations	124
Hitachi's Deskstar E7K1000 hard drive by Geoff Gasior — 2:13 PM on January 2, 2009 Hitachi has updated its terabyte Deskstar with a new model that packs 334GB per platter. The E7K1000 is optimized for enterprise, promising solid performance with... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Servers Workstations	36
Exploring the impact of memory speed on Core i7 performance by Geoff Gasior — 11:24 PM on December 1, 2008 The Core i7's triple-channel DDR3 memory controller offers mind-boggling peak theoretical bandwidth, but does the CPU need fancy DIMMs to excel? Join us as... Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs Memory	46
Intel's X25-E Extreme solid-state drive by Geoff Gasior — 10:25 PM on November 23, 2008 Intel's new X25-E Extreme SSD reads at 250MB/s, writes at 170MB/s, has near-instantaneous seek times, and may very well be the fastest drive you can... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Servers Workstations	121
Western Digital's RE3 hard drive by Geoff Gasior — 11:05 PM on September 28, 2008 Western Digital has spun off an enterprise-class RE3 hard drive based on its high-performance Caviar Black desktop model. Keep reading to see what kind... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Servers Workstations	27
VelociRaptor Redux: Now with final firmware by Geoff Gasior — 1:59 AM on June 20, 2008 Western Digital's VelociRaptor proved to be the fastest SATA drive on the market when it was launched back in April, but our intial impressions were... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Servers Workstations	42
Ubuntu 8.04 field notes by Mike Uchima — 1:33 PM on May 15, 2008 As I mentioned in one of the comments I posted in last Friday's FNT, I was planning on taking a laptop running Ubuntu 8.04... Type: Blog post Tags: Linux-Unix	98

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Continuing a long history of innovation, AMD announced today that they were the first to reach a critical CPU power envelope threshold. AMD CEO, Rory...

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