Intel Delivers the World’s First 6-Watt Server-Class Processor – Atom S1200 Series

Intel Corporation introduced the Intel Atom processor S1200 product family today, delivering the world’s first low-power, 64-bit server-class system-on-chip (SoC) for high-density microservers, as well as a new class of energy-efficient storage and networking systems. Continue reading “Intel Delivers the World’s First 6-Watt Server-Class Processor – Atom S1200 Series”.

By Nathan Kirsch

WD Red 3TB NAS Hard Drive Review

Earlier this year Western Digital (WD) announced the WD Red NAS hard drives that are a line of SATA III 6Gbps hard drives specifically designed for home and small office NAS (network attached storage) systems. We got our hands on the WD Red 3TB (WD30EFRX) and tried it out on a desktop as a storage drive and then in a NAS device in a RAID 5 array. Read on to see if the WD Red drive series is right for you!

By Nathan Kirsch