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Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra for Business open on the StorageReview lab bench with the display on
End User  ◇  Workstation

Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra for Business Review: RTX Spark N1X Runs a 35B-Parameter Coding Agent at 89 Tokens per Second, With One Major Caveat

The Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra for Business is the first Surface laptop built on NVIDIA silicon, and the first RTX Spark system to get a review from us. Our unit carries the full chip: a 20-core Grace Arm CPU, a 6,144-core Blackwell RTX GPU, and 128GB of LPDDR5X unified memory, with the user able to

NVIDIA L4, RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition, and L40S stacked edge-on from top to bottom to compare slot thickness and length, with the RTX PRO 6000 Workstation Edition behind
AI  ◇  Enterprise

NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition Review: L40S Throughput at 165W in a Single Slot

The NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition is the card NVIDIA built for the servers most enterprises already own. It is a single-slot, passively cooled, 165W board with 32GB of GDDR7 and the full Blackwell feature set: fifth-generation Tensor Cores with FP4, fourth-generation RT cores, three encoders and three decoders, and Multi-Instance GPU support

Jan v0.8.6 Hardware settings page showing Windows 11 Pro for Workstations, an Intel Xeon w5-2465X, 127.65GB of RAM, and an NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation GPU with 31.99GB of VRAM
End User  ◇  Software

Jan v0.8.6 Hands-On: Running Local LLMs on Windows

Running large language models locally has become much easier over the past couple of years, but a gap remains between downloading a model and having a useful desktop environment for it. Jan describes itself as a ChatGPT alternative, offering an open-source desktop app with a familiar chat-style interface that keeps most of the setup inside

Solidigm D5-P5430 30.72TB E3.S SSD standing on its long edge on the lab bench in front of a rack with the StorageReview logo
Enterprise  ◇  SSD

Solidigm D5-P5430 30.72TB E3.S Review: Gen4 QLC for Mixed Workloads

The Solidigm D5-P5430 is the mainstream tier of Solidigm’s QLC data center line. It’s the drive that sits below the capacity-maximizing D5-P5336 and carries a smaller indirection unit for the mixed and small-block write workloads a 16KB-IU drive handles poorly. We reviewed the 15.36TB P5430 at launch in 2023, when the story was the jump