Product Guides
Product guides, specification comparisons and buying advice for enterprise IT hardware. Whether you are comparing GPUs, checking server specs or researching storage options, you will find practical guidance here to help with your next purchase.
Server memory guide: DDR4 and DDR5, RDIMM types, population rules and how speed gets lost
How to read a server memory part number, which DIMM types can and cannot be mixed, and why a fully...
GPU server platforms compared: which rack servers take which GPUs, and how many
A guide to the server side of a GPU build: accelerator-optimised platforms versus general-purpose rack servers, how many double-width cards...
Where to find official server datasheets: HPE QuickSpecs, Dell technical guides, Lenovo PSREF, Supermicro and more
One index of the authoritative specification documents for every vendor we supply, what each document is good for, and how...
Server drives, caddies and backplanes: SFF, LFF, SAS, SATA, NVMe and E3.S explained
Why a drive that physically fits may still not work: interface, backplane, controller and carrier all have to agree. A...
Supermicro model numbers decoded: SuperServer and motherboard naming, X11 to X14 and H13
Supermicro publishes its own naming conventions, and once you can read them a model number tells you the form factor,...
