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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
Western Digital's VelociRaptor VR150 hard drive by Geoff Gasior — 7:00 AM on April 21, 2008 Few hard drives are iconic as Western Digital's Raptor, and now there's a new one: the VelociRaptor VR150. Read on to see if a... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Servers Workstations	106
Overclocking Intel's Xeon X3320 processor by Geoff Gasior — 12:52 AM on April 16, 2008 The Xeon X3320 shares the same 45nm Penryn core as the Core 2 Quad Q9300, but with a lower operating voltage that hints at greater... Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs Servers Workstations	36
Retest day by wirelesh — 9:15 AM on January 29, 2008 January 17, 2008 We were finally able to make it up to the mountains again to finish what we... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous Linux-Unix Networking	4
Behold Thumper: Sun's SunFire X4500 storage server by Steve Roylance — 9:28 PM on December 27, 2007 In July of 2006, Sun added an interesting new machine to their lineup of Opteron-based x86 servers. It was codenamed 'Thumper' during... Type: Blog post Tags: Storage Systems Linux-Unix Servers	18
Seagate's Barracuda ES.2 hard drive by Geoff Gasior — 10:27 PM on December 6, 2007 Seagate's latest enterprise-oriented Barracuda ES.2 hard drive boasts up to a terabyte of capacity spread over 250GB platters and backed up by 32MB of cache.... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Servers Workstations	33
Western Digital's RE2-GP hard drive by Geoff Gasior — 7:00 AM on November 12, 2007 Western Digital has massaged its latest power-efficient GreenPower hard drive into an RE2 model aimed at enterprise environments. Keep reading to see how... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Servers Workstations	26
Western Digital's RE2 750GB hard drive by Geoff Gasior — 11:49 PM on September 23, 2007 Western Digital's Caviar SE16 750GB hard drive is arguably the best 7,200-RPM desktop drive on the market. Can an RE2 version extend that... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Servers Workstations	20
Corsair's Dominator memory modules by Geoff Gasior — 12:00 AM on November 17, 2006 WE DON'T COVER MEMORY much here at TR—it's largely a commodity product; performance... Type: Feature article Tags: Memory	33
Seagate's Barracuda ES hard drive by Geoff Gasior — 12:00 AM on September 11, 2006 SCSI HAS LONG RULED the enterprise world, but Serial ATA is slowly creeping... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Servers Workstations	23
Western Digital's Raptor WD1500ADFD hard drive by Geoff Gasior — 12:00 AM on June 12, 2006 WESTERN DIGITAL'S RAPTORS have long set the performance standard for desktop Serial ATA... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Servers Workstations	43
Western Digital's Raptor X hard drive by Geoff Gasior — 10:10 AM on February 9, 2006 ALTHOUGH WESTERN DIGITAL'S 10K-RPM Raptor Serial ATA hard drives were originally intended for... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Servers Workstations	52
Gigabyte's i-RAM storage device by Geoff Gasior — 12:00 AM on January 25, 2006 WHILE MICROPROCESSORS HAVE enjoyed rapid performance increases thanks to new chip fabrication technologies,... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Servers Workstations	137
Exploring the performance impact of memory latency by Geoff Gasior — 12:03 AM on November 1, 2005 THESE DAYS, SEEMINGLY every major memory module manufacturer is producing fancy low-latency DIMMs.... Type: Feature article Tags: Memory	111
OCZ's DDR Booster by Andy Brown — 12:01 AM on February 24, 2005 EVERY SO OFTEN, WE COME ACROSS a product that is truly... unique. Something... Type: Feature article Tags: Memory	42
Corsair's XMS Xpert memory modules by Scott Wasson — 1:09 AM on February 11, 2005 I FIRST LEARNED THE power of glowing LEDs on memory modules back when... Type: Feature article Tags: Memory	40
Dual Opteron workstation motherboards compared by Geoff Gasior — 1:12 AM on April 6, 2004 IT TOOK what seemed like forever for AMD to release its Opteron processor... Type: Feature article Tags: Motherboards Workstations	49

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tipoo

It's not a benchmark suggestion, but a benchmark*ing* suggestion, I've always wanted to see more older CPUs thrown into what benchmarks they can to sh...

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lilbuddhaman

Obligatory "what about Higher resolution desktop monitors" post. +26

chuckula

Good idea, and to expand on this point: A whole lot of people have already given... +24

Alexko

"Quark, drunk on money, power, and an estimated 90% market share, started behavi... +24

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