A quick look at the specs sheet for the Dell PowerEdge R650 reveals some pretty significant improvements from its predecessor, the R640. The two share features including Intel’s scalable processor architecture, a 12Gbps hard drive backplane, DDR4 RAM, etc, but Dell gave the R650 a few big boosts. In this blogpost, we’ll talk you through the major differences between the R640 and the R650 and di...
Why use NVMe drives instead of an ATA interface? Simple answer: because it gives you the throughput of the PCI bus to the drives. And why does that matter? Because the PCI bus is considerably faster than you would get with SAS and SATA.
In this blog post, we’ll walk you through everything you need to know to use NVMe drives in a Dell PowerEdge R640, from ensuring that your server is equipped ...
SSDs vs. HDDs. It’s a raging debate within the IT world. Some folks swear that the performance of SSDs so vastly outperforms HDDs that the higher cost is unquestionably worth it. Others feel that HDDs offer decent-enough data transfer speeds at a much better price. The truth depends on your scenario and where you want to put your dollars!
This blog post will cover the basics of HDDs and SSDs ...
By now, you’ve probably heard of the amazing advantages of SSD drives – the flash-based hard drive technology, which improves performance dramatically over traditional spinning platter drives (or HDDs). You may also have heard of “NVMe,” – which are also SSD drives, but with a specific form factor and interface designed to take advantage of SSD’s lightning-fast read and write capabilities. ...
