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Dell plugs enterprise tools into entry-level PowerEdges

...provide scalability, power efficiency and density, respectively, Dell said. Each blade has hot-swappable hard drives, to cut down on maintenance time. The M820 is... Read more

14 May, 2012 by Jack Clark

Facebook rolls out open-source datacentre hardware

...industry-standard 19 inches, Frankovsky said, which should let companies have more hot swappable components at the front of servers. The technology should deal with... Read more

2 May, 2012
QNAP Turbo NAS TS-419P II

QNAP Turbo NAS TS-419P II

...or 1.6GHz variants). Commissioning was straightforward after installing disks into the hot-swappable drive carriers, then using the browser-based quick install procedure to... Read more

29 November, 2011 by Kelvyn Taylor
EonNAS Pro 800

EonNAS Pro 800

...push button, into which you have to screw the drives, which are hot-swappable. Each bay can be locked to minimise the chances of accidental... Read more

17 May, 2012 by Manek Dubash

Dell details PowerEdge 12G servers ahead of Xeon E5

...reads and 1.2GBps writes, using 128KB blocks. The product is a hot swappable PCIe-linked flash card that can go directly into Dell servers... Read more

28 February, 2012 by Jack Clark
Synology RackStation RS3412xs

Synology RackStation RS3412xs

...a switch that supports the 802.3ad protocol. Storage The storage is hot-swappable, with ten 3.5in. bays arranged across the front of the... Read more

17 February, 2012 by Alan Stevens
Dell PowerEdge R310

Dell PowerEdge R310

...front for four hard disks, with the option of either fixed or hot-swappable bays. To fill the drive bays there's the choice of... Read more

7 January, 2011 by Alan Stevens
Motion Computing J3500

Motion Computing J3500

The J3500 is a well-specified slate tablet with a stylus- and finger-friendly touchscreen, and a powerful vPro-equipped Core i7 CPU. It's a pricey ruggedised system with an impressive range of options and accessories, but there are still one or two missing features. Read more

24 June, 2010 by Charles McLellan

Virtual Instruments probes storage network fabrics

...monitor up to eight Fibre Channel gigabit links at once. It has hot-swappable power supplies and multiple redundant cooling fans. Virtual Instruments expects to... Read more

30 August, 2011 by Jack Clark
Lenovo releases ThinkServers for SMEs

Lenovo releases ThinkServers for SMEs

...of Sata or 4.8TB of SAS storage across up to eight hot-swappable drives. It is equipped with Intel's latest range of entry... Read more

16 June, 2011 by Jack Clark
D-Link ShareCenter Pro 1200-05

D-Link ShareCenter Pro 1200-05

...1100 model, with a lockable door that opens to reveal the five hot-swappable drive carriers. Drives are secured in the quick-release carriers with... Read more

9 May, 2011 by Kelvyn Taylor

OS Nexus releases QuantaStor storage cloud creator

...to repurpose servers. OS Nexus recommends QuantaStor for rack-mounted servers with hot-swappable drives. The starting cost is a one-off fee of £849... Read more

8 February, 2011 by Jack Clark
Panasonic Toughbook CF-C1

Panasonic Toughbook CF-C1

Panasonic's rugged, touchscreen-equipped Toughbook CF-C1 is a specialist (and pricey) convertible Tablet PC. However, it lacks both an optical drive and a webcam, and it'll take a while to get used to the keyboard's small space bar. Dual hot-swap batteries are welcome though. Read more

17 January, 2011 by Sandra Vogel

CES: Data Robotics Drobo S

...single or dual drive redundancy on the fly and all drives are hot-swappable, so you can recover from a disk failure or upgrade storage... Read more

14 January, 2011

Intergence launches branch office Hyperforma server

...contains up to four quad-core Xeon processors, 24GB of DDR3 RAM, hot-swappable Raid-enabled disk arrays with up to 500GB of in-server... Read more

18 October, 2010 by Jack Clark

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