While prepping a DS923+ NAS for a full review, we noticed that Synology has quietly added support for M.2 SSD volumes. This is a huge deal, as Synology previously allowed these slotted SSD drives for cache purposes only, limiting their utility. We’ve long complained about the lack of M.2 SSD volume support, hopefully, Synology will

Late last year, Seagate demonstrated the first hard drive with native NVMe support at the 2021 OCP Summit. The demo version of the HDD sported a tri-band controller that supported SATA, SAS, and NVMe protocols through a native NVMe interface without requiring a bridge. Read NVMe HDD Edges Closer to Reality for background.

Proxmox Backup Server Version 2.3 is now generally available. The open-source server backup solution gives enterprises an easy way to back up and restore VMs, containers, and physical hosts and supports incremental backups, deduplication, Zstandard compression, and authenticated encryption. This version brings enhancements to the web interface and tape backup features, along with a range

AWS re:Invent 2022 opened with a slew of product announcements impacting AI/ML, compute, analytics, containers, databases, and more. This post focuses on updates to some of AWS storage services.

There has been a lot of discussion about the issues surrounding boot drives in the hyperscale space over the past several years. While hyperscalers don’t want to spend too much on them, they need a basic minimum performance threshold among other necessary specifications.

Meta has been designing, building, and deploying its hardware in some of the largest data centers for over 14 years. In 2009, following rapid growth, engineers were called up to rethink their infrastructure to support the massive internal growth in data, people, and resources as Facebook engineers began the journey to design an energy-efficient data

QNAP has announced the QM2-2P-344A and QM2-2P-384A, the company’s newest addition to their budget-friendly QM2 PCIe Gen3 expansion card line. The new cards can be installed in compatible QNAP NAS solutions or Windows/Linux workstations, adding M.2 NVMe SSD slots to their respective systems for those looking to boost system performance and increase storage capacity. The

Of all the announcements at VMware Explore 2022 (US version), the highlight had to be the vSphere 8 support for Data Processing Units (DPUs) from NVIDIA and AMD Pensando based on servers from Dell technologies and HPE. Official support for DPUs meant VMware customers could now enjoy the benefits an accelerator could deliver. We took

Proxmox has announced that the new enhancements to its server virtualization management platform, Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE), are now generally available with version 7.3. With the new general update, users can seamlessly deploy virtual machines and containers, software-defined storage, and networking on a single platform. Proxmox VE 7.3 is based on Debian 11.5 (though it