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A blog worth reading or your money back!Do You Know The Rock-Solid NetApp X292A-R6 Disk Drive?
NetApp X292A-R6 Disk Drive If you are an IT Storage Professional with NetApp FAS hardware installed at your facility – then you know about the X292A-R6 disk drive. You know they are rock solid and will work for you for years. The great thing is, if you want to replace...
EMC VNX (and general) Acronyms
EMC VNX (and general) Acronyms The EMC VNX and VNXe storage arrays seem to have more acronyms tied to them than other storage systems (even IBM). This page is just a simple list of these acronyms with general IT acronyms added in. Most of this info is available...
HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage SSD SKU and Part Number Comparison
HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage is an all-flash scalable storage array that can scale from a few Terabytes up to 20PB. At Maximum Midrange, we like it for this scalability and it's affordability. Prices are coming down on 3PAR gear as the hardware hits the refurbished...
How to save $10,000 on E7Y57A HP 3PAR SSDs
The drive we are primarily talking about is HPE Part Number E7Y57A. It is a 3PAR StoreServ M6710 1.92TB 6G SAS SFF (2.5 inch) cMLC Solid State Drive. cMLC is consumer MLC or consumer grade multi-level cell flash. What does cMLC mean? Enterprise MLC or eMLC will offer...
IBM Power8 E Series Comparison Matrix
IBM Power8 E Series Comparison Chart (Jump to the chart) The IBM Power 8 E Series is made up of three servers: Power E850 8408-E8E Power E870 9119-MME Power E880 9119-MHE (links take you to our main website) The Power E850 server (8408-E8E) is designed primarily for...
IBM Power8 LC Series Comparison Matrix
Comparison matrix for the P8 LC series: (Links take you to the product page on our main website) - IBM Power8 8348-21C S812LC - IBM Power8 8335-GTA S822LC High Performance Computing - IBM Power8 8335-GCA S822LC Commercial Computing For more information on these LC...