Will Taillac

5 days ago | servethehome.com | Will Taillac

Today I am looking at the Supermicro H13SAE-MF motherboard. This is third in a series of reviews focusing on EPYC 4000, and is somewhat overdue as I have already deployed several of these H13SAE-MF boards. Nevertheless, it is never too late to do the work, so let us see what this board has to offer. Supermicro H13SAE-MF OverviewThe Supermicro H13SAE-MF is a mATX motherboard measuring 9.6″ x 9.6″ and powered by AMD’s B650 chipset.

6 days ago | servethehome.com | Will Taillac

Recently, Patrick did a dive into the licensing model of some common virtualization environments. For that article, he used an inexpensive server platform he bought from Newegg. He ended up with a bundle containing both the AMD EPYC 4464P CPU and a Gigabyte 1U chassis for $899, which was quite a bargain. In fact, as of the time of writing, that Gigabyte chassis is the least expensive EPYC 4000 compatible rackmount platform available on Newegg by a fairly wide margin.

1 month ago | servethehome.com | Will Taillac |Will has worked

Today, Samsung has sent over their brand new 9100 PRO 2TB Gen5 NVMe SSD for review. From the beginning of the SSD revolution with SATA SSDs, Samsung was a market leader in the consumer space. They held an edge during the SATA generation, and their 970 EVO product was a leader during the advent of NVMe SSDs. For Gen4, while Samsung did have a product in the 980 PRO and 990 PRO, they did not distinguish themselves in the same way as the brand to beat.

2 months ago | servethehome.com | Will Taillac |Will has worked

Ever since AMD released the first Ryzen 5800X3D chip, they have become some of the top-end mainstream CPUs on the market. Combining the already powerful Zen-based compute clusters with additional stacked L3 cache has proven a strong combination for gamers as well as for many applications ranging from virtualization to professional engineering. While the 5800X3D had only 8 Zen 3 cores, AMD upped the ante with the 7950X3D, a variant of their 16-core desktop SKU that offers the additional cache.

2 months ago | servethehome.com | Will Taillac |Will has worked

Today, we are looking at the Lexar PLAY 2280 4TB NVMe SSD. Just over a year ago I took a look at a 2230 sized drive in Lexar’s PLAY line, and today we have a more standard 2280 sized entry. Despite sharing the PLAY branding, this drive and that are very different, in more ways than just size, as you will see in my review. If you want to check the current pricing or want to pick up a drive, you can find the Amazon Affiliate link here.