Inspur is one of the world’s largest server vendors. They also have their own storage solutions, of which we’re looking at the NS8500 G2 SSD. This enterprise-grade Gen4 drive uses 112-layer eTLC NAND and Inspur’s own firmware. The drive is aimed at I/O-intense applications requiring low latency.

Micron Technology has released the Micron 9400 NVMe enterprise SSD which boasts a storage capacity of up to 30.72TB with TLC NAND. It’s a PCIe Gen4 data center U.3 drive, and provides consistently low latency at all capacity points. Its high capacity doubles Micron’s previous TLC SSD, meaning enterprises can store the same amount of

ScaleFlux uniquely focuses on computational storage at scale. Its new Computational Storage Device (CSD) 3000 is a Gen4 SSD with integrated data compression and decompression engines, which the company says can quadruple capacity and double performance. We’ll be putting those claims to the test.

The Synology DS923+ is a powerful and expandable NAS solution that is designed for home offices and small businesses. Equipped with the versatile Synology DiskStation Manager (DSM) operating system, it offers a range of features that help you protect, manage, and collaborate on your business data.

The ASRock Rack 4U36L6E-MILAN2/2T is a 4U rack server with support for two AMD EPYC CPUs, 36 3.5″ bays (4 of which can be used with NVMe SSDs), two 2.5″ NVMe boot drive bays and a pair of M.2 slots on the board for good measure. With this much compute and storage potential, this server

The NETGEAR AV Line of M4250 Switches is a new product designed specifically for audio/video professionals. It has been developed with input from leading experts in the professional AV market and combines NETGEAR’s years of networking expertise with best practices from the AV industry. The M4250 switches are tailored for the growing AV over IP

QNAP has recently launched its TS-hx87XU-RP series, a line of NAS devices available in 9, 18, 22, and 30-bay models. The family of NAS integrates the Intel Xeon E-2300 series processors with 10GbE and 2.5GbE Multi-Gig connectivity and an HDD/SSD hybrid storage architecture that balances performance, capacity, and cost. Under review today is the 18-bay

ASRock Rack, a provider of server technology aimed at HPC, Cloud, and large-scale data center users, delivered its new midrange server to us for testing. The ASRock Rack 2U12L-ICX2 is an affordable barebone server designed for small to medium businesses and is well suited to System Integrators and Value-added Resellers. The company is known for

In July this year, Dell announced substantial updates to the PowerStore unified storage platform. The most apparent announcements were around updated hardware, bringing PowerStore to its second generation. Perhaps more important, though, were the additions on the software side with the PowerStoreOS 3.0. The OS update includes over 120 new or enhanced features ranging from