A JBOD — “Just a Bunch of Disks” — is a disk enclosure architecture that exposes individual drives directly to a host system or external storage controller without performing hardware RAID operations. The key difference between JBOD and RAID lies in where the storage logic and redundancy are implemented. Unlike intelligent storage arrays with onboard […]
For edge deployments, branch offices, and workloads that fit within a single CPU socket, the socket decision determines not only the server platform, but also power consumption, licensing costs, and Total Cost of Ownership. AMD EPYC 8004 – marketed as Siena – brings the EPYC architecture to single-socket systems with up to 64 cores, six […]
With AMD EPYC Venice, the 6th generation of EPYC server processors has now officially been introduced as AMD EPYC 9006. AMD lists specific EPYC 9006 models with up to 256 cores per socket, up to 16 DDR5 memory channels, JEDEC MRDIMM support at up to 12,800 MT/s, and PCIe 6.0. This means Venice goes significantly […]
