IT/Datacenter & Super Computing

Phison Pascari X200E 6.4TB Enterprise SSD Review - Mixed Workload Champion

April 22, 2025 | Our first time with Phison's Pascari Series, and it does not disappoint, setting new lab records for sequential throughput and mixed workloads.

Sabrent Rocket Enterprise 15.36TB SSD Review - High Availability and Performance

April 11, 2025 | For SMB, the availability of enterprise SSDs has become a top issue that Sabrent wants to address with its first enterprise SSD - the Rocket Enterprise.

Kingston DC3000ME 7.68TB Datacenter SSD Review - A Worthy Contender

April 8, 2025 | Sporting a hardware combination we are intimately familiar with, Kingston's first PCIe Gen5 datacenter SSD is ready to take your enterprise to new heights.

Fadu Echo U.2 7.68TB Enterprise SSD Review - Powerful and Efficient

April 4, 2025 | With its in-house developed controller paired with Kioxia BiCS 6 flash, Fadu's Echo U.2 is among the best of its kind to ever cross our test bench.

DapuStor Roealsen6 R6101 7.68TB Enterprise SSD Review - Boss of 1-DWPD Storage

March 17, 2025 | With the rise of AI comes the need for more powerful storage, and DapuStor's newest model delivers the most performance we've encountered to date.

Samsung PM1743 E3.S 15.36TB Enterprise SSD Review - High-Capacity Standard Bearer

January 27, 2025 | Samsung's new 15.36TB PM1753 datacenter SSD is its high-capacity PCIe Gen5 standard bearer. Let's see what it can do in our testing.

Solidigm D7-PS1010 3.84TB Enterprise SSD Review - Best-In-Class

January 17, 2025 | With the rise of AI comes the need for ever-faster, more powerful storage, and Solidigm's first PCIe Gen5 SSD is delivering the most where it matters most.

Memblaze PBlaze7 7940 30.72TB Enterprise SSD Review - Massive Capacity & Performance

January 16, 2025 | Memblaze doubled the highest capacity of its PCIe Gen5 PBlaze7 7940 Series to a whopping 30.72TB, making it one of the most efficient SSDs in existence.

DapuStor Haishen5 H5100 3.84TB E1.S Enterprise SSD Review - Even Better

January 10, 2025 | DapuStor has updated its Haishen5 H5100 Series with more refined firmware making the already elite performer even better than before.

DapuStor J5060 61.44TB U.2 Enterprise SSD Review - Efficient Read-Centric Mass Storage

December 17, 2024 | The world has a new high-capacity contender in the enterprise space. DapuStor's new 61.44TB J5060 delivers massively for read-intensive applications.

Samsung PM1743 E3.S 7.68TB Enterprise SSD Review - OG Gen5 Standard Bearer

December 12, 2024 | Samsung's PM1743 has been around for a while and is one of the most prolific PCIe Gen5 datacenter SSDs currently in circulation. Let's see what it can do.

Memblaze PBlaze7 7A46 6.4TB Enterprise SSD Review - 3.3 million IOPS of Power and Efficiency

November 25, 2024 | AI's rise brings the need for more powerful and power-efficient storage that excels at very high queue depths, making the Memblaze P7A46 an ideal choice.

FlumeIO F5900 7.68TB E1.S Enterprise SSD Review - Powerful and Compact

November 14, 2024 | The FlumeIO F5900 7.68TB E1.S enterprise SSD meets the rising AI demand for faster, more powerful, and compact PCIe Gen5 storage devices.

Solidigm D7-PS1030 6.4TB Enterprise SSD Review - Most powerful of its kind yet

August 6, 2024 | With the rise of AI comes the need for powerful storage, and Solidigm's first PCIe Gen5 SSD has risen to the occasion, delivering more than ever before.

DapuStor Haishen5 H5100 7.68TB Enterprise SSD Review - Random Read Champion

February 1, 2024 | DapuStor is carving out a reputation for delivering the highest performance where it matters the most - exactly what we found in its Haishen5 Gen5 SSD.

Solidigm D7-P5810 800GB Enterprise SSD Review - Caching QLC

November 27, 2023 | Solidigm's D7-P5810 enterprise SSD brings low latency, super-endurance, and sequentialized programming to augment the QLC storage tier.

Micron 7500 Max 12.8TB SSD Review - Drop-in Ready

October 16, 2023 | The datacenter gets an update to 232-layer flash with Micron's 7500 Series enterprise SSD, offering unmatched consistency and class-leading performance.

Solidigm D5-P5336 61.44TB SSD Review - Size Matters

August 2, 2023 | Solidigm launches the world's highest capacity PCIe datacenter SSD. At a mind-blowing 61.44TB, it offers twice the capacity of anything in its class.

Memblaze P7946 6.4TB SSD Review - The Gen5 Contender from China

August 1, 2023 | Memblaze provides our second look at PCIe Gen5 for datacenter. Its PBlaze7 P7946 6.4TB SSD is a true contender for the highest-performing SSD of its kind.

Seagate Nytro 5550H 6.4TB SSD Review - A New Contender

July 26, 2023 | Seagate again partners with Phison Electronics to bring forth an NVMe SSD, the Nytro 5550H, an enterprise SSD dishing out a lot of performance.

KIOXIA CM7-V 3.2TB SSD Review - Gen5 Hits the Datacenter

June 23, 2023 | KIOXIA's CM7-V is the first PCIe Gen5 Enterprise SSD we've tested. As you might imagine, it offers by far the most performance we've experienced to date.

Solidigm D5-P5430 15.36TB SSD Review - When QLC Rivals TLC

May 18, 2023 | Solidigm is pushing forward with its QLC superiority. Its newest QLC datacenter SSD dishes out performance and endurance rivaling that of TLC.

Micron 6500 ION 30.72TB SSD Review - The Density Advantage

May 16, 2023 | Micron looks to combat high-density QLC SSDs in the datacenter with its new 232-Layer TLC SSD, the 6500 ION, offering a vastly superior value proposition.

ScaleFlux CSD-3310 7.68TB SSD Review - The Compression Advantage

May 15, 2023 | ScaleFlux has resurrected compression as a means of increasing the performance, efficiency, capacity, and endurance of enterprise SSDs.

Micron 9400 Pro 30.72TB Enterprise SSD Review - Master of Efficiency

January 11, 2023 | Join us as we closely examine the performance capabilities of Micron's most efficient enterprise offering ever, the 30.72TB 9400 Pro PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSD.

Micron 9400 Pro 7.68TB Enterprise SSD Review - A new level of performance

January 9, 2023 | Join us as we closely examine the performance capabilities of Micron's flagship enterprise offering, the 9400 Pro PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSD.

Micron 7450 Pro 7.68TB Enterprise SSD Review - Double Density

November 30, 2022 | Join us as we closely examine the performance capabilities of Micron's mainstream enterprise offering, the 7450 Pro PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSD.

Solidigm D7-P5520 7.68TB Enterprise SSD Review - King of Reads

June 24, 2022 | Join us as we closely examine the performance of Solidigm's (formerly Intel) first enterprise datacenter SSD, the D7-P5520 7.68TB.

Kioxia CM6-V 6.4TB Enterprise SSD Review

August 29, 2021 | Kioxia's CM6 was the first Gen 4 Enterprise SSD on the scene and it is likely the best-mixed workload performer to date.

Kingston DC1500M 1.92TB Data Center Enterprise SSD Review

July 21, 2021 | Kingston's newest enterprise SSD, the DC1500M, is designed for a broad range of datacenter applications. Join us as we test it.

Intel D7-P5510 7.68TB Enterprise SSD Review

June 10, 2021 | D7-P5510 is Intel's newest PCIe Gen4 enterprise SSD that brings bleeding-edge performance to datacenter or business applications.

QSAN XCubeNXT XN8016D 16-Bay 3U Review

January 21, 2021 | QSAN's XCubeNXT XN8016D 16-bay 3U unit is an extremely powerful yet flexible platform. Join us as we fully put it to the test.

Micron 5210 Ion Enterprise SSD Review

October 1, 2019 | Micron's low-cost 4-bit per cell enterprise SSD is a hit for machine learning and low write endurance workloads.

Intel DC P4510 2TB & 8TB Enterprise PCIe NVMe SSD Review

May 2, 2018 | Intel's first 64-layer TLC Enterprise SSD, the DC P4510, is set to invade datacenters everywhere.

Intel's Optane debut with the DC P4800X 3D XPoint SSD

March 19, 2017 | Intel introduces its Optane technology with the DC P4800X, the world's first 3D XPoint-based Enterprise/Datacenter (blazing fast) SSD.

Synology FlashStation FS3017 24-Bay All-Flash NAS Review

February 14, 2017 | Synology's FlashStation FS3017 24-bay all-flash NAS is easily the fastest network storage device we have tested from Synology. It's insane.

Micron 5100 Series ECO & MAX SATA Enterprise SSD Review

January 30, 2017 | Micron's 5100 series is their first 3D flash-based line of enterprise SSDs. Let's take a close look at the 5100 MAX and 5100 ECO.

Intel DC P3520 2TB Enterprise PCIe NVMe SSD Review

January 16, 2017 | Intel's first 3D flash-based enterprise SSD, the DC P3520, hits the market. Here's our full review of it.

Micron 9100 MAX 2.4TB Enterprise PCIe NVMe SSD Review

July 6, 2016 | Micron drops the hammer with their new 9100 Series SSDs, featuring unmatched write performance combined with one of the industry's lowest price points.

Techman XC100E5C 1.6TB Enterprise PCIe NVMe SSD Review

July 1, 2016 | Techman enters the ring with their new XC100E5C series enterprise NVMe SSDs. We test the 1.6TB model standalone and in RAID 0.

Samsung SM863 & PM863 960GB Enterprise SATA III SSD Review

January 20, 2016 | Samsung introduces two new datacenter SATA III based SSDs, the SM863, and the PM863. Read on for our full review.

TYAN S7076 (Intel C612) Server Motherboard Review

December 30, 2015 | TYAN's S7076 Intel C612 server motherboard goes under the spotlight. This dual Xeon CPU board offers loads of features, especially concerning storage.

Intel DC P3608 1.6TB Enterprise PCIe NVMe SSD Review

September 23, 2015 | The DC P3608 dual controlled PCIe Gen 3 x8 NVMe enterprise SSD is the fastest SSD Intel has ever made. You're going to want to read our review.

Islamic State's social media propaganda machine seems unstoppable

August 9, 2015 | Michael discusses Islamic State's ability to use social media and how it is giving western governments and intelligence agencies absolute fits.

Micron M510DC 480GB Enterprise SATA III SSD Review

August 4, 2015 | Micron's MD510DC is a low-cost high performance replacement for HDD's in the datacenter, and here's our full review.

Supermicro X10SDV-TLN4F (Intel Xeon D) Server Motherboard Review

June 4, 2015 | Today we have a SoC product hot off the Supermicro assembly lines that uses the new Intel Xeon processor D-1540, the Mini-ITX X10SDV-TLN4F motherboard.

Supermicro X10DRL-CT (Intel C612) Server Motherboard Review

May 7, 2015 | Small form factor and high performance storage and network options makes the X10DRL-CT a top performer and powerful base motherboard for compact servers.

Supermicro X10DRX (Intel C612) Server Motherboard Review

May 5, 2015 | Today we have another motherboard designed for maximum I/O, the Supermicro X10DRX, based on Intel's C612 server chipset. Here's our full review.

ASUS RS520-E8-RS8 Barebones Server Review

April 27, 2015 | We test the third barebones kit from ASUS. This time it is an RS520-E8-RS8 server kit. Is it a quality high performing storage server? Let's see.

ASUS TS700-E8-RS8 Barebones Workstation Review

April 22, 2015 | Barebones workstation kits provide nice time savers when setting up a machine. Let us look at the ASUS TS700-E8-RS8 Workstation Barebones kit.