Ansible is a great way to mass deploy changes across multiple machines. For example, I have used it to do some basic setup on a new machine and to update multiple hosts simultaneously. It is also important to keep in mind that Ansible is not only used in homelab environments, but it is also very popular in corporate environments,
The NETGEAR Orbi, and its Pro business model, are well-liked here at StorageReview. We have been reviewing models for several years now all with fairly high praise. We reviewed the original tri-band mesh router and the newer WiFi 6 version earlier this year. Today we are looking at the Orbi Pro WiFi 6 Mini or
Last month, Synology announced a major update release to its DiskStation Manager operating system, Synology DSM 7.0. While they are not reinventing the wheel here, there are some major changes. Synology has done a lot of streamlining and redesigning of the GUI as well as tackle some security issues, security issues have been a bit
The QNAP TVS-h1288x NAS is a recent addition to the company’s QuTS hero line of ZFS-based devices. ZFS allows for better data integrity and several enterprise features. The TVS-h1288x NAS uses an Intel Xeon W CPU, 14 total drive bays, and a vast array of options when it comes to expansion and connectivity.
The Intel SSD D7-P5510 is dubbed the world’s first 144-Layer TLC drive (first to market) and is the latest addition to the company’s family of data center drives, which focus on broad cloud workloads at reduced costs. Available in a U.2 form factor in two models (3.84TB and 7.68TB), the P5510 utilizes TLC NAND, which
The Memblaze PBlaze6 6920 is the company’s new NVMe SSD series that features a PCIe Gen4 interface and the potential performance gains that could bring. The 6920 is a U.2 drive that leverages 96-Layer NAND. There are two drives in this series, the PBlaze6 D6920 and the PBlaze6 D6926, the former being the lower endurance
Nearly two years ago at the Flash Memory Summit, Liqid announced its Honey Badger SSD, or properly known as the Liqid Element LQD4500 edge card. At the time, the company claimed that this was the world’s fastest NVMe storage. How fast? The claims were 24GB/s and over 4 million IOPS at the time, again, a
Shortly after AMD launched its latest generation of AMD EPYC 7003 processors, HPE announced several updates for support of the new CPUs. Amid this announcement, the company announced the HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen10 Plus V2 Server. The server is a 2U, dual-socket system with the ability to have up to 128 cores and 8TB of
A few months ago, we started our $800 TrueNAS build competition. In a nutshell, Brian, Ben, Kevin took $800 and built their own NAS system leveraging TrueNAS CORE as an OS. Thanks to Western Digital, the guys didn’t have to worry about storage, WD provided a bevy of SSD and HDD options for the guys
The Kingston DC1500M is the company’s latest U.2 data center NVMe PCIe SSD specifically designed for cloud providers, hyperscale data centers, and enterprise-level IT on-premise servers. The DC1500M is an affordable enterprise SSD, making it an ideal solution for organizations looking to move from SATA/SAS SSDs to NVMe in order to leverage the interface’s much
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