Category Archives: Hardware

Installing 2.5″ SSD Drives and SSD RAID Arrays in Hot Swap Cages – A Quick Look at 4-in-1 and 6-in-1 2.5″ Cages from Icy Dock, Thermaltake, and iStarUSA

If you’re planning to install SSDs in your servers or workstations, consider that many cases do not have mounting points for 2.5″ drives. Internal 3.5″ and external 5.25″ bays are still the most common drive mounting options in most cases, … Continue reading

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Why You Should Use ECC Memory In Your Next Computer

You may have heard about ECC (Error Correcting Code) memory and thought it was just some fancy thing for servers, not something you’d need on your desktop PC. But in my opinion, modern computers used for anything more mission critical … Continue reading

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