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AMD Overtakes Intel in Data Center Revenue for the First Time
Intel is not going through its best moment; the decline in sales and stock market value of what was once one of the most valuable companies in the world has reached the point where the U.S. administration is considering a merger with AMD. Meanwhile, companies such as Qualcomm, Samsung, and…
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Kingston DC500M 960GB Data Centre SSD Review
It is time for a second go at Kingston‘s DC500 series today. I got the DC500M in the office which is a drive geared towards mixed workloads. The last time I looked at the series it was the DC500R which is a read-oriented drive. Both have one thing in common…
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Seagate Exos X16 16TB Enterprise HDD Review
Seagate recently launched its new 16TB HDDs which include the Exos enterprise drives. Today I have just that drive in the office for a closer look and a series of tests. I keep being impressed by how much capacity Seagate manages to cramp into these type of drives, allowing them…
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Kingston DC500R 960GB Data Centre SSD Review
Today we’re taking a look at another SSD, but it is a different kind than most. The Kingston DC500 comes in two flavours where one is optimised for read-intensive workloads while the other is optimised for mixed workloads. What they both have in common is that they are designed for…
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AMD Unleash Rome Epyc CPUs – Taking the Extreme to New Limits
EPYC to ROME AMD are pushing their new 7nm technology pretty hard on the consumer side, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t still advancing their server division either. The AMD Epyc platform is a big hit. Especially so in the datacenter and supercomputer market. However, their ROME CPUs and platforms…
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Hard Disk Drive Shipments Projected to Drop by 50% in 2019
Market Projection from Japanese Company Nidec Nidec is a Japanese company that makes 85% of the motors inside hard disk drives. As such, their market analysis and projections are important in the industry. According to Nidec’s latest financial presentation however, hard disk drive shipments will drastically drop this year. This…
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Kingston Launches the 500-Series Data Center SSDs
Optimal SSDs for Read-Intensive Applications Kingston is announcing their new DC500R solid state drive. The “DC” in the name stands for “data center” use as these are optimized for read-intensive enterprise applications. This is the first drive in the DC500 series that implements Kingston’s strict Quality of Service (QoS) requirements…
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Western Digital Debuts the 15TB Ultrastar DC HC620 SMR HDD
15TB Western Digital SMR Drive for Data Centers Last year, Western Digital released a massive 14TB SMR drive for data centers. Now they are improving upon that even further with the launch of the 15TB Ultrastar DC H620. SMR of course, stands for ‘Shingled Magnetic Recording‘. SMR overwrites a bit of…
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AMD EPYC 7551P 32-Core/64-Thread SP3 Processor Review
Introduction AMD EPYC 7551P 32-Core/64-Thread SP3 Processor GIGABYTE send us some AMD EPYC processors (link) so we can test the matching motherboards, so it’s only suitable to offer you full reviews of the processors themselves. Today we’re taking a closer look at the first of two, the AMD EPYC 7551P.…
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NVIDIA Grows to Take 3rd Spot as Largest IC Design Company
NVIDIA is having their strongest years in history with a largely unchallenged domination in the graphics card segment and expansion into other ventures. Now the big green company has overtaken MediaTek as the world’s 3rd largest IC design company. This report comes from the firm Topology Research Institute claiming that…
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Micron Launches 8TB SSD with 3D TLC NAND
Micron has unveiled its new 5100 Series enterprise-level SSDs, which boast 3D TLC NAND, 74,000 random write IOPS, and up to 8TB of storage. The impressive 5100 Series is a huge step toward all-flash data centres, especially as SSDs become faster and more price-competitive versus HDDs, and its massive 74,000…
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Ever Wondered What’s In Google’s Data Centres?
Google is known for a lot of things but the company was built on data, the storage and searching of information from all over the internet. Typically these things are locked behind closed doors but Google wants to show it all through an eight-minute video tour showing you everything you…
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PIA Running Traffic Through Second VPN to Avoid BitTorrent Ban
After a number of large datacentres are now banning heavy BitTorrent traffic on their networks, popular VPN provider Private Internet Access (PIA) has started routing its traffic through another VPN which, while slowing connection speeds, ensures its customers are not prevented from downloading torrents. Many BitTorrent users implement VPN services…
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Lightning Strike Wipes Google Data Centre
Google has suffered permanent data loss after one of its data centres in Belgium, which was struck by lightning four times. The electricity surges from the lightning strikes wiped portions of data from the Google Compute Engine storage systems; some disks affected by the strike were later recoverable. “Although automatic…
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