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I have a client that wants to replace the hard drives in about 50 systems with SSDs. I've been using Samsung Evos and have been happy with them, but for this many systems it might be worth using a less expensive drive if there's a drive that has similar reliability to the Evos. If it matters...

I have a client in need of a relatively high performance MS SQL server. I'm looking at either Samsung 845DC or Intel DC S3610 drives. Will use separate (hardware) RAID arrays for the OS/SQL binaries (R1), MDF files (R10) LDF files (R1) and TempDB (R1). Anyone have experience with either of...

EDIT: Was just told that they've changed the design to use an mSATA drive. Thanks for the feedback so far and apologies for the moving target... I'm looking for the most reliable SATA SSD in the 50GB to 64GB range. Don't care about speed, not overly concerned about price, just reliability. I'm...

I need to upgrade from 12 GB to 24 GB on my test / development system (Server 2008 R2, bunch of VMs under Hyper-V). Processor is a Core i7 quad. Has anyone done this and if so what modules did you use and has the RAM been stable? Not overclocked by the way. Thanks in advance.

I'm specing out a disaster recovery server using and HP Proliant server for a client. I'm not as familiar with the HP server line and their RAID controllers as I am with Dell, Areca, LSI and others so I have a few questions. The server will be a 385 G7 with 16 drive bays (8 in the server and 8...

I have a server with an Adaptect 5405 RAID controller in a Norco 4220 case. Currently it has 4 SAS drives but I'm adding more so I need a SAS expander card. I'm wondering what my options are. So far I've found the Chenbro CK12803 and the HP SAS Expander cards. The HP looks a bit more...