Low-End Server Building Blocks Micro and low-end servers come in all shapes and forms. Ideally, we would gather them all in our labs and make a performance per watt comparison, taking the features that make management easier into account. The reality is that while lots of servers enter our lab, many of the vendors cannot be easily convinced to ship heavy and expensive server chassis with a few tens of nodes. Read More...
Power Consumption Low power consumption has always been a staple of Samsung's SSDs, and the EVO is no different. Idle and load power are among the best here. I'm also expanding our DIPM testing, first introduced in the SanDisk Extreme II review:
We're introducing a new part of our power consumption testing with this review: measurement of slumber power with host initiated power management (HIPM) and device initiated power management (DIPM) enabled. Read More...
“Life’s short. Drive fast, leave a sexy corpse.”
Last week, Cathy placed herself on my list of characters to keep a heavy eye on this season, and it excited me to think that we might get some real shakeups by separating Dunder Mifflin between Pennsylvania and Florida. It’s not even Cathy’s phone call at the end of “Special Project” where she vowed to seduce Jim that had me anticipating this week’s “Tallahassee” – it’s that Cathy is new, unknown, unfunny, and thus a perfect symbol for my often confused Office expectations. Read More...