IT Hardware Insights & Guides

The Dell RN698 is a DisplayPort male-to-male video cable, listed across the parts market at around six feet in length and also appearing ...

The Dell WTJVC is a 960GB 2.5-inch SATA 6Gb/s read-intensive solid state drive built for 14th generation PowerEdge servers. It is one of ...

The Dell GG217 is a part number that turns up on procurement lists long after the systems it was designed for have been retired, usually ...

What the PERC H965i is, what tri-mode means for drive bays, hardware RAID on NVMe and its latency trade-off, U.3 requirement, and how it ...

Which drives fit 14th generation PowerEdge servers, why the carrier differs from R730, per-bay NVMe support, Dell firmware coding and wha...

R640 specs and how 1U differs from the R740, the all-NVMe bay configuration and why lane routing is per-bay, and the iDRAC Enterprise lic...

R710 specs and why the low price usually does not survive the power cost, the exceptions where it still makes sense, and what to check on...

R630 specs and how 1U differs from the R730 on bays, slots and noise, the NVMe bay configuration worth checking, and the iDRAC licence qu...

R720 specs and why DDR3 changes everything, how it compares to the R730, when the low entry price genuinely makes sense, and what to chec...

R740 specs and what genuinely changed from the R730, why it is a replacement rather than an upgrade, bay options, and the iDRAC Enterpris...

R730 drive bay configurations, supported processors and the v4 firmware requirement, memory population rules, PERC cache battery, and wha...

Why a failed cache battery collapses write performance with no error reported, the difference between RAID and pass-through mode, and mov...