Science at the Edge! HPE Liquid Loop, Lots of Reviews...

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The HPE ProLiant DL560 Gen11 offers 4 CPUs, up to 16TB of DRAM, and has room for 2 double-wide GPUs, too...all in a 2U chassis. What's the magic to make this happen? A closed liquid-cooling loop that comes standard with the higher-TDP configurations. Take a look here as we unbox this beefy server and point out its key design features.

Full HPE Video Deep Dive

When we completed the initial review of the Hl15, the team got a little distracted and ended up juicing the CPU, adding an A4000, and tossing in excessive flash storage for no particular reason. This time, we're taking a more sane storage focus - dropping in 360TB of WD Gold HDDs. The new 24TB drives are 10-platter CMR drives that actually take a little less power than the 22TB drives while also chipping in a hair better performance.

Full WD 24TB Gold Unboxing Video

Scientific Research at the Edge – High-Capacity Storage Enables AI Accelerated Insights

Armed with a powerful deep-sky-object capture rig, a set of Solidigm P5336 61.44TB QLC SSDs, and our new favorite rugged Dell PowerEdge XR7620 server, we explore the need for robust, cost-effective storage to manage the rapidly exploding data requirements of edge-based AI-accelerated scientific research. Read what Jordan's been up to in?Scientific Research at the Edge.

HPE ProLiant DL560 Gen11 Review – Closed-Loop Liquid Cooling

If you’ve ever looked at a standard dual-socket 2U server and wished for twice as many CPUs and a massive RAM footprint, the HPE ProLiant Dl560 Gen11 has you covered.?

Read this review to get Frank's opinion on the?HPE ProLiant DL560

WD Gold 24TB HDD Review – 360TB Of HL15 Fun

When we first reviewed the?HL15 homelab server?system, we spent most of the time putting in way too much CPU, excessive PCIe expansion options like a GPU and Optane storage, and a quiet Noctua cooler. Read what Dylan found testing?WD Gold HDD.

Supermicro Blade SBI-421E-5T3N Review

Following our comprehensive?review of the Supermicro X13 SuperBlade chassis, we now focus on a server option when populating the chassis, the Supermicro Blade SBI-421E-5T3N.? Read Lyle's review of the?Supermicro Blade.

Lexar SL600 Portable SSD Review

The Lexar SL600 utilizes the quick USB 3.2 Gen2x2 interface and touts up to 2TB of storage. A little over a year ago we reviewed their previous external SSD, which was the?SL660 Blaze. The SL600 differs from the SL660 Blaze in the fact that it falls under their Professional line (no lights).? Get Dylan's take on the?Lexar SL600.

EnGenius Cloud-Based Network Management Solutions and Wi-Fi 7 Review

If you have been following my recent move to a small apartment and the challenges of finding a rack that is aesthetic, functional, and quiet. We covered those trials and tribulations moving my?lab into his new smaller living room. So, with all the reconfigurations, cabling, fan-swapping, and new kit, it made sense to look at a solid management system. Read more to see how Vince fared with?EnGenius Cloud Manager.

IBM Storage Adds AI-Enhanced Data Resilience Capabilities

Everyone is familiar with the potential power of artificial intelligence, but could that be turned against us in the form of an AI attack surface, empowering cybercriminals to invest heavily in new GenAI tools? Ransomware is still number one on the list of top five threats organizations fear the most.? Read more to see how the new?IBM FlashSystems?will assist clients with cyberattacks.

Dell Adds PowerScale F210 and F710 To Its All-Flash Lineup

In the dynamic world of AI technology, preprocessing unstructured data plays a crucial role. Their appetite for unstructured data grows as AI systems evolve, driving the need for robust preprocessing techniques. Get the latest from Dell on the new?PowerScale Storage.

Social Media Highlights

We’ve opened the second Comino liquid-cooled system - this one is supposed to be even quieter than the first one. Hard to imagine with 4x NVIDIA A100 GPUs but we shall see. The review will get started tomorrow. Want more?

QNAP makes a dizzying number of NAS systems, but the TBS-h574TX is one we’ve anxiously been waiting for. The slim and portable 5-bay NAS supports enterprise E1.S SSDs (or M.2 NVMe), 10GbE/2.5GbE onboard, and twin Thunderbolt 4 (20Gbps) ports for locally-attached storage. Creative Pros will be jazzed for this one, or anyone who wants a tiny, powerful NAS that should also be pretty close to silent. Our review is just getting started!

When we posted our review of the 45Drive Homelab server, we spent a lot of time on the compute power and expansion available in the box and we didn’t have a perfectly matched set of HDDs to test with. Now we do thanks to our friends at WD. 15x of their 24TB WD Gold HDDs to be exact, netting 360TB raw in the platform. The storage review is in process and should be out soon!