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Enterprise  ◇  SSD

Liqid Element LQD4500 Review (Honey Badger)

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

Enterprise  ◇  Server

HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen10 Plus V2 Server Review

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

iXsystems TrueNAS mini with WD Red Plus drives
Enterprise  ◇  Small NAS

Budget TrueNAS CORE System Showdown

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

Kingston DC1500M front
Enterprise  ◇  SSD

Kingston DC1500M U.2 NVMe SSD Review

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

Enterprise  ◇  HomeLab

Docker Swarm Install on a Thin Client

As someone who doesn’t have a very large budget to spend on my homelab, the HP t730 thin client is actually perfect for homelab use. Lucky for me I was able to win one during a recent StorageReview giveaway on their sub-Reddit. The t730 has enough RAM and CPU to be flexible enough for many

Enterprise  ◇  SSD

ScaleFlux CSD 2000 Review

ScaleFlux is a company that is solely focused on computational storage, more specifically computational storage at scale. The company is primarily doing this with its ScaleFlux Computational Storage Drives (CSD). As you may have guessed by their name, the CSD is an NVMe SSD integrated with compute engines that can improve drive and system performance.

Enterprise  ◇  Server

Supermicro 1124US-TNRP Server Review

The Supermicro 1124US-TNRP is a 1U server that leverages the new AMD EPYC 7003 processors. The server is part of Supermicro’s A+ Ultra family. If the name and the picture below are causing déjà vu, it is because we already review the near-identical Supermicro 1024US-TRT Server. The previous review was also looking at a newer

Enterprise  ◇  Server

HPE ProLiant DL365 Gen10 Plus Server Review

Back in March, AMD released their latest generation of AMD EPYC 7003 processors. The same day several vendors were quick to follow suit, including HPE who launched several server updates. Headlining the updated servers announced is the HPE ProLiant DL365 Gen10 Plus, a 1U dual-processor system that’s primed to deliver class-leading compute strength. The DL365

all in one thin client
Enterprise  ◇  Thin Client

Perfect Pairing: IGEL and LG All-in-One Thin Clients

LG recently announced that their popular all-in-one thin clients will be shipped with IGEL OS preinstalled on them. What this means is that purchasers of LG clients will be able to get them in the hands of their end-users more quickly – a perfect pairing of technology as we see it.

Samsung PM1735
Enterprise  ◇  SSD

Samsung PM1735 SSD Review

Samsung launched almost twenty iterations of their PCIe Gen4 enterprise SSD family in the fall of 2019. The PM1733 and PM1735 were designed to fully take advantage of the throughput Gen4 offers. Now that server vendors are including Gen4 ports across their AMD and Intel-based server offerings, these SSDs are finally coming to market in