A standard GPS module serves as an accurate time reference; these units can often be directly connected to old hardware thanks to the eternal RS-232 standard.

Ask any home lab enthusiast about their setup, and you’ll probably hear them ramble about second-hand server hardware. After all, a huge number of CPU cores and tons of (ECC-compatible) memory ...

With prices plummeting, there’s never been a better time to buy server hardware. Which is good, because it means you can get a lot more computing for your money. However, demand for processing ...

Any old 3.5-inch HDD will work in a Plex media server—storage is storage. But you should buy hard drives that are specially designed for servers, such as the Seagate IronWolf. A NAS HDD will usually ...

FreeNAS can breathe new life into old hardware and sling files and media to networked devices all around your house.

How much server memory is enough, and for how long? Brien works through the math as part of his ongoing hardware refresh.

Google for the first time on Wednesday revealed the hardware at the core of its Internet operations at a conference about the increasingly prominent issue of data center efficiency, reports CNET's ...

[Jeff Geerling] has been following the various open source time projects for some time now, and is finally able to demonstrate a working and affordable solution for nanoseconds-accurate timekeeping… ...

The time has come for hardware vendors to offer service level agreements (SLAs). Readers may be scratching their heads right now. How might an SLA be applied to a hardware vendor? SLAs are ...

Meta has created a new metric to measure real-time server fleet utilization effectiveness against its carbon emissions. The new metric adds a kind of depreciation schedule for server hardware’s carbon ...

Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) utilizes server hardware to run desktop operating systems and application software inside a virtual machine.

Facebook's artificial intelligence, or AI, research unit has already open-sourced most of its code and research. Now for the first time, Facebook is sharing its own AI hardware design.