OVHcloud will raise prices on some dedicated servers in the second half of 2026 due to a global shortage of DDR5 RAM and NVMe drives caused by AI demand, with DDR5 RAM now costing six times more than …
Dell Technologies has qualified KIOXIA's 245.76TB NVMe SSDs for its software-defined ObjectScale storage platform, enabling 9.83PB of raw flash capacity in a single 2U Dell PowerEdge R7725 server. The…
KIOXIA has launched the NX1 Series, its first PCIe 5.0 NVMe data center SSDs with direct liquid cooling support, available in E1.S 9.5 mm and 15 mm form factors with capacities from 1.92 TB to 15.36 T…
A deal on the 2TB Samsung 9100 PRO SSD offers a 41% discount from recent price highs, bringing the PCIe 5.0 drive to a lower price point. The Samsung 9100 PRO delivers sequential read speeds up to 14,…
A developer built a purpose-driven AI cyberdeck that runs large language models locally without cloud dependencies. The build uses a Raspberry Pi 5, NVMe storage, a Hailo-8 AI accelerator, and a Raspb…
A new weight reordering technique for Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models optimizes physical file layout to minimize NVMe seek overhead, achieving massive gains in explicit-read inference engines like MLX…
Amazon Web Services announced new capabilities for Amazon SageMaker HyperPod, including inference data capture, direct model deployment from community hubs, NVMe storage for reduced latency, and Route…
Amazon Web Services announced the general availability of EC2 C9g and C9gd instances powered by Graviton5 processors, offering up to 25% higher performance per vCPU than previous-generation C8g instan…
AI clusters often underperform despite powerful GPUs because the GPUs are idle due to bottlenecks in data loading, CPU preprocessing, network communication, or storage contention. A developer explains…
A developer with years of experience in AI and machine learning systems argues that infrastructure—GPU clusters, high-speed storage, memory, networking, and specialized servers—is the hidden backbone …
Amazon's Prime Day deal offers the Samsung 990 Pro 2TB SSD at $369.99, a 42% discount from its regular price. The NVMe drive delivers sequential read speeds up to 7,450 MB/s and write speeds up to 6,9…
An AI agent tasked with optimizing a system's performance achieved full NIC and disk bandwidth saturation, but its explanation of the optimization was completely wrong. The system, which uses a single…
VMware vSAN's Express Storage Architecture (ESA) offers significant performance improvements over the legacy Original Storage Architecture (OSA) for mixed workloads, including transactional and AI tra…
A developer successfully deployed Hermes Agent on an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano (8 GB) for self-hosted AI agent runtime, achieving a silent, low-power automation box running 24/7. The setup uses Ubuntu 2…
A benchmark by Alluxio and Anyscale shows that using Alluxio as a distributed NVMe cache for Ray Data reduces cross-region training data read times from 4,241 seconds to 208 seconds, a 20x speedup, by…
Hardkernel has announced the ODROID-H5 single-board computer, featuring onboard 10 GbE networking and four M.2 slots for expanded storage and peripheral customization. The board uses an Intel N300 pro…
ClickHouse Cloud users can now provision a fully managed Postgres service backed by local NVMe storage, offering up to 10x faster transactional performance and native change data capture (CDC) for rea…
A developer built Micro-Expert-Router, a Rust inference engine that streams Mixture-of-Experts model weights directly from NVMe SSDs using io_uring with O_DIRECT, eliminating the need for GPU VRAM. Th…
This article provides a technical guide for installing TrueNAS SCALE on a 16GB partition of a large NVMe drive, rather than using the entire disk, to conserve storage space. It details how to modify t…
The article describes a problem where a user reinstalled Debian on a new NVMe drive with the same hostname, causing both the old and new drives to have identically named LVM volume groups ("heartofgla…