The Synology DiskStation DS1621xs+ was launched in mid-September of this year as an update to Synology’s line of high-end business NAS in a desktop form factor. The DS1621xs+ offers six 3.5″ drive bays, though it is expandable to 16 total bays via two 5-bay DX517 JBODs.
Earlier this year, Netlist added an M.2 NVMe to its portfolio of SSD in the form of the Netlist NS1552. The new SSD is all about high performance at a low power cost. This particular enterprise drive is aimed at use cases such as boot and log information, searching, indexing, CDN, Cloud and hyperscale computing,
Viking Enterprise Solutions (VES) is a leading storage and server development company that specializes in developing systems for enterprise OEM customers, providing large-scale solutions for high performance and cloud computing. With such a diverse customer base, VES is a dynamic company and ready to take advantage of emerging technologies to help its customers maintain a
I am in the cyber security industry, so I try to stay up to date on the new and the perennially popular technologies. I’m working on setting up a workflow to practice bringing in dirty malware files and safely analyze them. My whole stack of gear sits in my living room, right next to
Welcome to my penetration testing/software development/media editing/jack-of-all-trades lab! What started out two years ago is a crummy old Cisco switch and router, with a cheap r610, and no gigabit networking in sight (shudder), has grown to quite a decent little lab.
VMware developers released the ESXi ARM fling, a version of ESXi that can run on devices based around ARM processors such as the Raspberry Pi 4b we are using, Nintendo Switch Consoles, and many other SBC’s. Setting up the Raspberry Pi to run ESXi is fairly quick, we covered the installation and setup of a
The DapuStor H3900 is an enterprise SSD that is part of the company’s Haishen3-XL line. Unlike the H3100 or the H3200, the DapuStor H3900 is based around KIOXIA XL-FLASH technology (the first drive available on the market with the new technology), hence the name of Haishen3-XL. Being based around storage class memory (SCM), this SSD
In October of this year, VMware announced the ability to run ESXi on 64-bit Arm processors. This was further enabled through VMware’s Project Monterey and Arm’s Project Cassini. Arm-based devices include SmartNICs and Raspberry Pi devices. Now through a VMware Fling (a VMware program sponsored through the Office of the CTO designed to offer early-stage
A few weeks back we reviewed the Dell EMC PowerEdge R6525 Server. Overall, the 1U server was pretty impressive but lacked one thing that would really make it stand out, support for PCIe Gen4 storage end-to-end. Well, with the help of the people at Dell Technologies, we’ve corrected this and are reviewing the server again,
SK hynix is not only the world’s third-largest semiconductor company and the second-largest memory chipmaker, they also use their technological acumen to make a well-regarded line of SATA and NVMe flash storage devices. In this article, we will provide an overview of the PE8010, SK hynix’s latest PCIe Gen4 Non-Volatile Memory express (NVMe) drive, and
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