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You have probably seen the number: enterprise SSD prices are up 472%. It is a real figure from a real dataset — and it is also five months old, published by a storage vendor about its own product economics, and already superseded by that same vendor's later data. Most of … read more

Correction, September 27, 2026. Dell's firmware enables Windows Server 2025 on the PowerEdge R640 and R740, but Dell's support matrix and its Server 2025 RAID driver do not include them: BIOS 2.22.2 (October 1, 2024) lists “Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2025 Operat … read more

Every "best computer for college" list published this year is a list of laptops. That is a reasonable default and a bad habit. For a student who works at a desk — and most students do most of their work at a desk — the 2026 memory shortage has made a refurbished pro … read more

"How much does a server cost?" used to have a boring answer. In 2026 it has a moving one: a global memory shortage roughly doubled server DRAM prices in a single quarter, Dell and Lenovo have each raised list prices twice since December while HPE rewrote its terms so a price ca … read more

Cloud vs on-premise is usually argued with adjectives. This guide argues it with a receipt. We price one mainstream AWS instance against the equivalent refurbished Dell PowerEdge from our own catalog, add the real monthly costs of ownership — electricity at the current na … read more

SAS vs SATA vs NVMe is the first decision that shapes a server's storage: how fast each drive is, how many fit behind one controller, and what the tier costs per terabyte. SATA is the cheap, universal 6 Gb/s interface. SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) is the 12 Gb/s enterpr … read more

On January 12, 2027, Microsoft ends extended support for Windows Server 2016. No more security updates, no more patches, no more support cases — for an operating system that still runs a very large installed base of Active Directory domains, file servers, and Hyper-V host … read more