Buying powerful PCs pre built is all so well and good but the fun comes in when you build them yourself! That’s just what we have done at work with some media suite PCs which use 6 core processors, modular PSUs and all other kinds of fun things – full specs and photos to come after the video.
Tag: OCZ
OCZ Vertex 4 won’t update/flash to version 1.5
I’m quite a perfectionist when it comes to making sure that hardware runs with the latest firmware, quite often these software updates bring improved stability and features. In SSDs though it quite commonly brings about performance boosts. However when trying to update the Vertex 4s I recently received to build a Custom RDS Farm I would go to update the… Read more
Virtual Desktops on PCI-E SSD – Why HDD should still be involved
One of the most interesting features of the OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 is that in many situations you can boot a OS right off the drive (great for super fast gaming PCs). The only issue with this is not every motherboard out there will support booting right off a PCI-E SSD (OCZ do have a list here though) but also more… Read more
Does a OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 SSD work in a HP DL385 G7 Server?
Yes 🙂
SSD VDI Application Load Times
Its time to do some more VDI testing! In the short video below you will see what it is like to launch multiple programs off a Virtual Desktop that is hosted on a SSD. More info on the YouTube page 🙂
3 months in – OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 in a Server
Its been a little while since posting What happens when you put a OCZ PCI-E SSD in a server? and I thought I would give an update to its progress. After 2520 hours powered on (about 105 days or 3.5 months) the SSD is yet to give us any trouble – that’s while hosting 3 a fully active virtual machines… Read more
SSDs – almost at the £1/1GB price point!
After the previous article looking at the merits of a Solid State drive in a server I had a root around the Internet and found out that normal 2.5″ (Notebook PC sized) SSDs are nearly at the £1/1GB magical price point. The particular drive I’m looking at is the OCZ Technology 120GB Agility 3 from dabs.com which currently ships (free… Read more
What happens when you put a OCZ PCI-E SSD in a server?
For a while I’ve been wondering just how well a PCI-Express Solid State drive would work inside a standard off the shelf rack mounted server. Finally I have been given the chance to find out and as it turns out everything works quite nicely. The solid state in question is a OCZ Revo Drive 3 x2 240GB (from Novatech) and the server is a… Read more