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 ...
When it comes to types of server hard drives, there are so many variations out there that it can become challenging to keep track of all the considerations. "Can my server read a 4Kn drive?" "Can I mix SAS and SATA drives in the same machine?" "What about SSDs versus HDDs?"
While we've written extensively on hard drives, we thought it would be helpful to summarize all the types, formats, and ...
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 ...
Enterprise servers are designed to hold multiple hard drives in bays. In fact, most enterprise rack servers have no less than six bays, and the Dell PowerEdge' xd' models can have up to twenty-four drive bays (and that's not including any Flex Bay options!).
In addition to the robust storage options for standard Long Form Factor (LFF) and Small Form Factor (SFF) drives, some servers have alte...
We often are asked by our customers for more details on our refurbished hard drives. “How long have they been running? How many bytes have been written? Are there any bad sectors?” Since we already covered the myths and misconceptions about refurbished hard drives in a previous blog post, we thought it would be helpful to share the objective metrics we use to quantify our drives before we...
One of the regular features of our blog is to share with you, our valued customer, some of the support questions we receive. Since these are questions we've researched and solved, why not share the knowledge?
In this information dispatch of TechTalk, we'll look at some of the queries that have come through our support desk regarding Hard Drives.
Hi Mike. I just realized that my server ha...
