AMD continues to expand its Ryzen 9000 series family with the introduction of the Ryzen 7 9850X3D. It’s an 8-core, 16-thread processor designed to build on the strengths of AMD’s earlier X3D offerings. We received a Ryzen 7 9850X3D sample in the lab and ran a comprehensive set of benchmarks to compare it with the
After a long wait, the NVIDIA DGX Spark was released last year, with the hope of fostering a new wave of AI engineers and researchers. At StorageReview, we’ve received multiple DGX Spark systems from various partners for evaluation, and we’re developing some exciting cluster projects. However, the thermal and power characteristics across these different implementations
Currently priced at $799 on the Ubiquiti website, the UNAS Pro 8 is a 2U rackmount NAS designed for higher-capacity file storage and shared workloads, featuring eight 2.5/3.5-inch drive bays alongside two M.2 NVMe SSD slots for cache acceleration. This configuration targets environments that need increased throughput and lower latency while maintaining a compact rack
We recently received Supermicro’s dual-socket Turin-based A+ Server AS-2126HS-TN for review. It’s a 2U platform designed to support extremely high-core-count workloads and to provide flexible PCIe expansion. Built around and supporting dual AMD EPYC 9005 (Turin) and 9004 (Genoa) series processors, the system targets a broad range of enterprise and data center use cases, including
Since we first brought the QLC-based PowerStore 3200Q with PowerStoreOS 4.0 into the lab, Dell hasn’t slowed down. The company has expanded the lineup with the PowerStore 5200Q—a higher-performance, cost-optimized model built for a broader range of production workloads. At the same time, three major software releases (PowerStoreOS 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3) have added meaningful capabilities across the platform,
ARTESCA+ Veeam is what happens when backup software and backup storage stop acting like separate products and move into the same house. At a high level, it is a unified software appliance that runs Veeam Backup & Replication inside Scality ARTESCA on a single server. Instead of setting up a Windows server for Veeam, a
Our last look at a Ubiquiti switch was nearly a year ago, when we reviewed the Ubiquiti Pro Max 48 PoE. With some time having passed since that review, we are turning our attention back to the Pro Max lineup with a much more compact option, the Ubiquiti Pro Max 16 PoE, along with the
The Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 V4 is a flexible and powerful 2-socket, 2U rack server designed to meet the needs of industries such as cloud services, telecommunications, and high-performance computing (HPC). Whether optimizing for scale-out workloads or future-proofing your data center with high-density compute, the SR650 V4 offers meaningful upgrades over its predecessor, the SR650 V3.
StorageReview has reclaimed a popular computational crown with a new pi record solve to 314 trillion digits. The modern π race has gone from cloud experiments to full-blown infrastructure flex. In 2022, Google Cloud pushed π to 100 trillion digits, running y-cruncher across a massive fleet of cloud instances and chewing through tens of petabytes
Ubiquiti has recently expanded its UniFi Protect ecosystem by introducing a new class of smart sensors that are powered by its long-range SuperLink wireless protocol. For this review, Ubiquiti sent us the UP-SuperLink gateway and the new USL-Environmental Sensor. The gateway is priced at $129, and the sensors are $49 each (affiliate) at the Ubiquiti store. While the Environmental Sensor
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