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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 Launches 14TB Models Across the entire Line-Up
Seagate Launches 14TB Models Seagate Technology launched the industry’s widest range of advanced 14TB hard drives, enhancing the company’s enterprise and speciality-drive portfolio. The IronWolf and IronWolf Pro are for NAS and the BarraCuda Pro is for desktop usage. Surveillance systems can benefit from the SkyHawk while the Exos X14…
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AMD EPYC 7351P 16-Core 32-Thread Processor (SP3) Review
Introduction AMD EPYC 7351P 16-Core/32-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 second of two, the AMD EPYC 7351P.…
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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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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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Apple Investing $2 Billion in 100% Renewable European Data Centres
Apple has announced that it is to invest $2 Billion into two new data centres in Europe, that will be powered by 100% renewable energy. The company’s CEO, Tim Cook, says that the new centres will bring great benefits to the local communities surrounding the new buildings as well as…
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Amazon to Go Green Throughout their Server Farms
After receiving harsh criticism for the energy efficiency of their data centres from Greenpeace earlier this year, Amazon has shown willingness to consider their environmental impact, with the company vowing to use renewable energy to power their server farms. Greenpeace gave Amazon’s data centre in Morrow County, Oregon an F…
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Samsung Announced the 845DC EVO Solid State Drive
Samsung has introduced a new SSD line, specially designed to bring the optimum solution for data centres. The 845DC Evo Solid State Drive is said to deliver sustained performance with a low latency and high performance ratings, making the SSD an ideal candidate for read-intensive data centre applications such as…
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Google Told To Move Their Infamous Mystery Barge From San Francisco Bay
Last year saw a lot of rumours surrounding Google and their mystery barge, with documents surfacing that showed the barge was being constructed by Google, but nothing about what it will actually be used for. Some have suggested it may be a floating data centre, while others think that it…
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