The world of artificial intelligence is growing at an unprecedented pace, and with it comes the need for comprehensive benchmarking tools that can provide insights into the performance of various inference engines on different hardware platforms. The UL Procyon AI Inference Benchmark for Windows is an exciting addition to our lab. Designed for technology professionals,

Recently we have been working extensively with AI in the lab. This has had wide-ranging results, from accidentally borking an entire OS with various configurations and software to needing to set up and have a baseline image to work with across platforms. We decided that it would be worth outlining the basic getting started steps as

We recently reviewed AMD’s 4th generation server processor, commonly referred to as AMD EPYC Genoa. While we saw impressive performance out of the box, more tuning has led to even better results, culminating in our recent chart-topping run of y-cruncher, which is a CPU-intensive benchmark that calculates the decimal places of Pi out to billions

When it comes to small business and home lab IT decisions, sometimes thinking outside the box helps to create cost-effective and high-performance solutions. Crucial just released the new 4TB capacity of the long-standing MX500 SATA SSD, which may just be a perfect price and performance mix for a low-cost all-flash storage setup. We installed eight

Today in the lab we are looking at something a bit different, but something that fits right in with our needs: ATEN 4K KVM over IP Extenders. These remote KVM Over IP Extenders are designed to allow displays or projectors to connect up with computers that are separated by distances greater than what direct-attached cables

At StorageReview, we get our hands on a lot of notebooks. Instead of connecting each and every new system to our wireless network we opt to connect devices using Ethernet cords so we can just plug and play. Not only does connecting to our network via Ethernet save us time, but it’s also important for

Last week we started a new configuration in our lab using a 3-nodes vSAN cluster. You can check the introduction of this configuration here, and for more details, take a look and explore the video (and more to come) in our revitalized YouTube channel.

Sneakernet isn’t talked about as much these days, but it is still the fastest way to move data between two points. This is the term for physically moving a device or appliance from point A to point B. Shipping a hard drive might be needed for multiple reasons, either seeding backup data or sending a

In the lab recently we worked on one of our Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd test platforms, performing an 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable CPU upgrade. We have an upcoming VDI project so we are upgrading the test platform to get ready. As we will detail below, it was a pretty simple process with a mixture of