IT Hardware Insights & Guides

GALXP is a part designation that sends a lot of people down the wrong path, because it looks like a Dell or HPE code and is neither. It i...

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 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 ...

The Intel AXXBPVIDCBL is one of those parts nobody thinks about until a compute module will not POST and there is no way to see what it i...

An SK hynix SSD sits in a slightly awkward place in most buyers' heads. The company is one of the three big memory manufacturers on earth...

Full specifications for the ASRock Rack GENOA2D24G-2L+ dual socket SP5 motherboard, why it uses MCIO connectors instead of PCIe slots, wh...

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

What an NVMe namespace is, why it is not a partition, which drives support more than one, and how namespaces are used for over-provisioni...

What a TPM does on an enterprise server, how it differs from Secure Boot, what requires one, and the encryption and redeployment traps th...

What USB, Ethernet, wireless, Bluetooth and serial each do on a label or receipt printer, where each one fails in practice, and why the i...

Why enterprise SSD capacities look odd, what the reserved flash actually buys in sustained write performance and endurance, and how TRIM,...