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

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.

The HP ZBook Firefly G8 is the line’s most portable workstation with dedicated graphics to date. Available in both 14- and 15-inch versions, the new HP laptop is a highly customizable workstation that weighs in at just 2.98lbs and 3.74lbs, respectively, and features Wi-Fi 3, gigabit-class 5G, and long battery life.

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

The Sabrent DS-SC5B is a 5-bay “docking station” that allows users to create a high-capacity, external storage solution. It supports up to five SATA 3.5” hard drives, features an all-aluminum build, and is equipped with USB 3.1 Gen2 connectivity. While the DS-SC5B is designed specifically for 3.5-inch HDDs out-of-the-box, you can still use SSDs with

The ASRock Rack 1U4LW-X570/2L2T RPSU is a barebones system that delivers AMD Ryzen 5000 Series CPUs in a 1U server form factor. This system is not just a consumer board squished into server form factor though. It offers dual 10GbE on-board, out-of-band management, and a lot of storage flexibility. Importantly the NICs are supported by

The OWC Express 4M2 is a Thunderbolt 3 external enclosure for up to four NVMe M.2 drives. Configurable in a variety of RAID options via OWC’s SoftRAID XT software (which is included as a $100 add-on), this external enclosure packs some serious performance in a small package. In this review, I’ll be looking at this

The OWC Envoy Pro Elektron is a small, portable NVMe SSD that is bus powered and leverages USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 (10Gb/s). It also boasts being crushproof and dustproof and is IP67 rated, which means it can be submerged for up to 30 minutes in 1 meter (3.3 feet) of water. Overall the drive does

NVIDIA just launched a new set of GPUs designed to take gamers to the next visual level. The GeForce family has added the RTX 3070 Ti and the RTX 3080 Ti. While we tend to focus on the ProVis GPUs like the RTX A6000 we just reviewed, gaming GPUs have a special place in the