IT Hardware Insights & Guides

Retail tags and tickets are not labels, and printers built for labels often handle them badly. A price ticket on card stock, a hang tag w...

There is one question worth settling before anything else about this printer, because getting it wrong is an expensive mistake and the mo...

Every roll of self-adhesive labels you have ever used came with a second roll of waste attached to it. The silicone-coated backing paper ...

Most industrial label printers are bought on print width, resolution and speed. Those three numbers tell you almost nothing about whether...

A rugged Android handheld is bought for one reason: the device it replaces kept breaking, or kept failing to scan. Consumer phones and ta...

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...

The most expensive mistake in label printing is not buying a refurbished machine instead of a new one. It is buying a desktop-class print...

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...

The sectors that kill a RAID array are not the ones that failed loudly. They are the ones that went bad months ago on a part of the disk ...

A SAS host bus adapter with eight ports can address hundreds of drives. The component that makes that possible is the expander, and it is...