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 ...
At TechMikeNY, we work a lot with the architecture of the Enterprise servers that we refurbish and resell. Since we field so many questions with customers wanting to expand the capability of their server through PCIe cards, we thought it would be helpful to give a summary of Risers. We’ll also share some caveats and pitfalls you may run into should you ever decide to upgrade your Dell serve...
