QNAP Thunderbolt NAS/DAS Review – Creative Professional Take

The QNAP TVS-872XT is an 8-bay, Thunderbolt NAS designed primarily for video and media applications. It’s part of QNAP’s x72XT lineup of NASs that offer both dual Thunderbolt 3 ports as well as 10GbE on board for cross-platform collaboration between macOS and Windows users. Today, we’re going to be looking at how I use this device in my workflow both on and off film and commercial sets. (more…)
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Dell EMC PowerEdge C6525 Server Review

The Dell EMC PowerEdge C6525 is a 2U server designed to address the need for high-performance dense-computing environments, such as HPC workloads. As the name/number ends in a “5” this indicates The C6525 is an AMD EPYC-based server, supporting both the 7002 and 7003. The latter goes along with higher performance (more cores and threads), more RAM capacity, and PCIe Gen4 capabilities. The C6525 has four nodes that allow two AMD EPYC CPUs each for grand totals of 512 cores, 1024 threads, and up to 8TB of memory in the 2U cluster. (more…)
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