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There must be a catch, but it's not obvious to me. Look at this auction on FleaBay. Seems too good to be true, but if I had the spare cash, I'd try. The lowest price on those processors I've found is 3995$, so that's half the price. 18 cores 36 threads 2.3GHz / 3.6GHz turbo 45MB L3 cache...

Read Ars Technica's report here. They won't ship it internationally before next year. Too bad, as I would have reserved one this morning. Who's in? It's certainly not very expensive for the power it can store. Anyone who thinks it is should take a look at industrial UPS battery packs. At...

Gnodal has been bought by Cray in 2012, according to what I read. Some of their switch models are regularly on sale on eBay, but the prices seem to be too good to be true. Their GS4008, which is a 40x10GE+8x40GE sells for only 3000$. It's an L2+ only switch, but still. They also have a 2U...

We've inherited an HP Proliant ML350 G6 at the office. It only has a single modest Xeon E5620 inside and 8GB of RAM. I'm trying to find parts to upgrade it. Although a new processor pair and RAM are relatively easy to find on eBay, it is surprisingly hard to find a heatsink for this...

I've never seen it this low, hence why I post it here. Only for today, at Rakuten. The Samsung 850 Pro is probably the best consumer grade SSD on the market these days, so having it at less than 50¢ per gigabyte is a good deal.

Beware of AT&T's gigabit to home Internet offer : http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/atts-plan-to-watch-your-web-browsing-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/ Being worse than Google regarding privacy is quite a feat, but they've achieved it.

I get this message on the top of the page when I log out : Warning: Declaration of vB_DataManager_User::do_set() should be compatible with vB_DataManager::do_set($fieldname, &$value, $table = NULL) in ..../includes/functions.php on line 497 Warning: Declaration of vB_DataManager_User::save()...

I need to build a new fileserver for one of the company I work for. We use a Synology NAS for the archives, but it isn't fast enough for the live data. I need auto-tiering and LDAP authentification. I plan to use a standard server with Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard Edition. I might also...

32GB DDR4 LRDIMM sticks are still quite rare. It's easier to find the HP part number 726722-S21 than almost any other similar module. Although it is obviously not on Supermicro's compatibility list for their X10 motherboards, since the memory controller is on the processor, I would expect an...

I'm the new owner of a Moto G (which I call a "motog"). By far the finest phone I've ever had, even though it probably is one of the lowest end phone currently on the market. The display is very nice and the touch screen works well. Don't ask me about the camera as I don't use this. It is...

Well, hopefully, only a temporarily piss-poor company. A person close to me asked me to walk on water help his company build a decent virtualization server for under 5 grands. Even worse, I'm talking about 5000$CDN, not U$ (so it's more like ~4400U$). The server also has to be a tower, not...

Due to some weirdo networking interference, I'm considering linking two locations separated by ~80m with a multimode fiber. I have an HP 3800-48G switch with one empty SFP+ port. I plan to put an SFP+ SR 10G transceiver (part #J9150A) into it and pass a 100m multimode duplex fiber cable to the...

Although it is quite late in my career, I've finally managed to start a CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Assosciate). I master several skills teached during the certification, but I've never had the paper to prove it. In eight months, I will. I'll also learn a lot of stuff I didn't know by heart...

Thanks to CPU World, we now have a significant amount of informations about the upcoming (around second week of September, at the beginning of IDF San Francisco) Xeon E5 v3 intended for dual-socket servers.

I don't think it's the one where Adcadet works because I once looked for it (thanks to the lattitude/longitude numbers he post) and it doesn't look like the one I've seen on the Net that is about to fall in a river. A confirmation by Adcadet would be nice though.

News source With Fusion-io's products and their UltraDIMM SSD, SanDisk is positioning itself to be a strong player in the enterprise flash storage market.

I must find an appliance to provide several VPN connections to different network segments for our customers. Many of our customers have development environments within our office and it would be practical for them to be able to access them remotely. I already know how to do that on low-end...

News source Seagate quotes sequential transfer rates up to 216MB/s for the new drives, and it says the 6TB model is the fastest offering in its class. The Hitachi Ultrastar He6 is rated for only 177MB/s, lending weight to Seagate's claim. Both drives spin their platters at 7,200 RPM. However...

We seem to be affected, or at least at the moment, Tuesday, April 8th, ~18h20 eastern time.

Who's been at IDF San Francisco lately? It seems to be the most pertinent show for server stuff year after year since Intel has the habit of introducing their latest Xeon E5 processors there. I might try to come this year or probably more next year. CES seems to be more of a circus than...

I read it here : http://www.tomshardware.com/news/lenovo-battery-recall-models,26412.html I ended up on TH by accident and stumbled on this news. I thought it could be meaningful for some people here, especially Ddrueding and Mercutio. Several laptop models are affected :

Am I the only one with a downright ass-grabbing job? I mean, during the past two weeks, I've felt asleep every day during the afternoon...and nobody cares. I'm about to buy a sombrero! Not that I haven't tried to make things move faster, but I always end up waiting for the management to make...

I have a dilemna. I can either opt for a rackmount server or a desktop computer for a customer who doesn't need very high performing equipment. In my experience, rackmount equipment have a much lower failure rate than typical desktops. However, to fit within the allowed budget for that job, I...

I didn't know that, but AVG acquired Crossloop back in 2012. The AV firm decided to shut Crossloop down yesterday. Source Mercutio won't be happy.

In case anyone here is looking to increase the networking capacity of their installations, you might want to take a look at this switch. It is a modular design from the Open compute Platform organisation. I don't know how much it cost, but it should be quite affordable compared to whatever...

I expect to be the only one here to have attempted to do this, but just in case, here it goes : I want to configure a Windows Server 2012 R2 cluster between three servers. Two of those are Windows Server 2012 R2 DataCenter and since they have a GUI, I've had no problem configuring them. The...

Read the news.If we compare the SPECint_rate of the A1100 (80) with the one of some Intel processor, like the Xeon E3-1220L (90.6), the efficiency of AMD's latest design isn't all that impressive. The new A1100 has a TDP of 25W while the E3-1220L has a TDP of only 17W. I guess that...

I have a user here who cannot send e-mails through his Exchange account on his iPhone, but only when he's connected to the 3G/4G network. It works when he's connected to the local wifi. The iPhone is still using iOS 6. This is not my field of knowledge at all.What to do?

Both the Xeon E5-46xx and AMD Opteron6xxx are about to be updated. A look at the current generation brought me a question. For a relatively affordable (emphasis on "relatively") quad socket server, what would bring the most performance, a quad E5-4610, or a quad Opteron 6376? I'm not talking...

I read that here, which is based on this message. Let's say that they pay their electricity 8¢/KWh, which I assume is a pretty average number (our company pays less than 6¢ per KW/h). In order to climb to 20000$, you have, according to my calculations, to pump a bit more than 28KW per hour...

The site wasn't accessible this morning. All I got was a VBulletin error message. Was it the VBulletin upgrade happening?

I've tried this on Fedora 19 32bit on an 8-years-old laptop. I used Remmina with the RDP plugin. I've been able to launch a session on the server, but it freezes every time after less than a second. I've also tried to launch rdesktop from the terminal, but it doesn't seem to be installed in...

http://www.howsecureismypassword.net/ Can be quite useful. I make sure my passwords take at least 4 million years for a typical PC to crack. Of course, it wouldn't take 4 million years because there will be significant advancements, but still. I aim high. Of course, I don't type my actual...

http://www.ubnt.com/airfiber#airFiberHardware Anyone here have tried or heard about it? A pair of antennas would cost us less than 3800$CDN and I'm seriously considering it to provide network access to one of our sites very nearby. The airFiber has a 13Km range. This site is not even 1Km...

For now, almost every setup and how-to stuff is stored uniquely in the heads of my co-worker and myself, regarding the company's servers and networking configuration. I want to create some documentation, so that if I leave, my replacement will at least know the basics. I'd like to create a...

Anyone here knows about Insight System Exchange? I don't remember linking them before. They might have interesting stuff for some of our US members (AFAIK, they don't ship outside United States). This server, for instance, seems like quite a deal ...

When I remove a virtual machine from my newly configured Hyper-V Server 2012 R2, it leaves the VHD (or VHDX) intact. This takes space. I read that this is normal behavior and that I have to manually remove the VHD and folders manually. I can't figure out how. I access the server by remote...

Here are the interesting facts about the drive : News source Of course, it uses a standard SATA 6G interface. A 1.5TB model will be available too. At last, one drive to answere Mooner's dreams.

I'm stuck on this one. One of my users need to be able to send e-mails from multiple e-mail addresses. I can add many e-mail addresses from which she can receive e-mails, but there's only one from which she can send messages. I can't figure out how to do this. No, I cannot use a POP3...

CPU World has posted bits of informations regarding the next generation highest-end x86 server processor from Intel : the Ivy Bridge-EX. However, the only place I can find information regarding the frequency and cache amount is, strangely, on wikipedia. Of course, being on wikipedia, we can...

Last evening, I was curious regarding Fujitsu's server solutions. Their rack models are ok, but they don't seem that special. However, their 10U blade chassis looks great on paper. They pack two more blades than the equivalent HP model (the BL c7000). They are more flexible regarding the...

I've found this page quite helpful to understand the various networking and storage interfaces that currently exist in the server world : Demartek Infiniband really stand out for an interface introduced as early as it was compared to the others. IB devices are not more expensive than FC 8Gb...

Anyone ever used Altaro's Hyper-V backup software before? That's what we're eyeing to copy our VMs on our new virtualized setup. We plan to buy the Unlimited Edition. Of course, we'll try the free version before, but I would appreciate any feedback you guys would care to give.

They are. Or at least they should be. I've tried to download both in French and English, but every time the download terminstes before the file is completed. I'll try again later this evening, when I'll be at home. Anyway, it should work for you guys too...eventually.

Am I alone here to work with HP rack servers? For now, we only have a few G5 and G6-era servers, as well as half a dozen switches (Procurve 2510-48G and 3800-48G). However, with our upcoming upgrade, we'll add a few more servers of the latest generation. Wether those will be blade servers of...

What do you guys use to monitor services and systems on your server farms? Here, all we have is SpiceWorks, but I don't see how to configure it to send alerts when something's down. In my previous company, we used Zabbix. I read a little about Splunk too, but I don't know if it's good or not...

The Register posted Seagate's roadmap for its upcoming enterprise drives. You can view it here. I don't understand the very last sentence of the page : So...it's a solid-state drive, but not a pure SSD....? WTF is an SSD if not a solid-state drive?

Any idea what would cause an IBM server x3650 M2 to see only a fourth of the RAM installed? This particular server originally had 8GB installed into it and only detected 4GB. I needed more, so I added 4 other 2GB sticks (from other similar servers). It still only sees 4GB. I disable the...

Those of you curious about the details of the upcoming Ivy Bridge-EP chips that are supposed to be launched this September can view most of their specification on this page on ASRock's website. Only thing missing is the core count, but you can figure it out by the amount of cache (20MB=8 cores...

I want to store Hyper-V's virtual machines on a NAS. I originally planned to use a Thecus N12000PRO, but it only has 12x 3.5" bays to store the drives. Since I want to use 2.5" SSD, this is a waste of space. Something like and HP Proliant DL380p Gen8 would be better since I can use more...