IT Hardware Insights & Guides

Connect two servers to the same JBOD and, by default, both of them see every drive in it. Nothing stops either one from writing to any di...

An all-flash array that was fast when it was built and is noticeably slower a year later, with no change in workload and no failing drive...

A server that runs perfectly but sometimes comes up with three drives missing, or a fully populated enclosure that will not power on at a...

An RFID label printer does two jobs at once: it prints the human-readable and barcode content exactly like any thermal printer, and it wr...

A scanner that returns twelve digits when your system expects thirteen, or strips a character everyone assumed would be there, is not fau...

A hot spare is a drive sitting in the server doing nothing, waiting for another drive to fail so the controller can rebuild onto it autom...

A server that was fast last month and is crawling this month, with no configuration change, no failed drive and nothing in the applicatio...

Almost every label printer in industrial and retail use prints one of two ways, and choosing the wrong one is the single most common mist...

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 ...

SRMBA is the Intel spec code for the Core i7-13700 processor. If you have found that string on a chip and cannot work out what you are ho...

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 ...

How linerless label media works without a backing liner, what it saves in roll changes and waste disposal, why it requires a purpose-buil...