We recently reviewed the latest Intel Optane P5800X SSDs that can take advantage of PCIe Gen4 (outside of AMD platforms) thanks to the latest Intel CPUs.  Optane SSDs in servers make a lot of sense, the incredible performance profile makes caching and tiering exceedingly useful. For professional users with hungry applications though, purposing enterprise tech

The Dell UltraSharp U3821DW Monitor is a 38″ curved display with a huge amount of screen real estate and an immersive field of view, making it ideal for those who use several applications at once. The Dell monitor combines its WQHD+ (3840 x 1600) resolution and 99% sRGB factory calibration with InfinityEdge technology for a

Over the past few days, users of QNAP systems’ devices have been hit with a ransomware attack. In fact, two we discovered, Qlocker and eCh0raix. These attacks do what the usual ransomware buttholes do and encrypt users’ data while offering to give it back for a fee. QNAP is on the ball and has released

Seagate has expanded its gaming storage line this time with a focus on PCs with the Seagate FireCuda Gaming Hard Drive. The drive is HDD-based so that means it can be picked up for less and have a higher capacity for the tradeoff of top performance. It does come with a top capacity of 5TB

In a previous article, we looked at Dell Technologies’ new midrange storage line – PowerStore. We discussed the reasons why Dell released this new line of storage and then did a hands-on investigation of what it takes to set up a PowerStore storage appliance and migrate a database to it. In this article, we will

The Supermicro 1024US-TRT is a 1U server from the company’s A+ Ultra family. The server is ideal for organizations who need a performance-driven solution that can excel in dense compute use cases. Coupled with its extensive networking options, the 1024US-TRT features an H12DSU-iN motherboard inside the SC819UTS-R1K02P-A chassis, the former which is highlighted by its

We’re all well aware that unstructured data continues to grow not just throughout the enterprise data center but throughout every small office in the world as well. That notion holds true even in our small office. While already a Veeam v11 user for our virtualized environment, we hadn’t yet adopted Veeam NAS backup and recovery

Just last week Intel released their 3rd Gen Xeon CPUs, which builds on their ecosystem play that includes Optane SSD storage in the P5800X and of course the latest 200 Series persistent memory modules (PMem). With our initial Intel storage reviews out, we decided to repurpose the Intel server and storage tech we have in

The TEAMGROUP T-CREATE CLASSIC is the company’s newest PCIe SSD to hit the market and is the Gen3 model of the line (there’s also a Gen4 version). Though this NVMe drive is certainly an entry-level consumer release, the company claims that the T-CREATE CLASSIC is designed specifically for the creative professionals whose daily tasks include