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RAM prices have roughly doubled, server memory quotes change week to week, and the shortage is expected to last years. The cause isn't a factory fire or a pandemic — it's the AI buildout, and one piece of wafer math explains almost ev

HPE's Smart Carrier — the drive tray with the LED ring and the "Do Not Remove" warning — was standard on ProLiant Gen8, Gen9, and Gen10 servers. From Gen10 Plus onward, HPE switched to the simplified Basic Carrier. Here's what e

Seen "MV" in an HPE SSD description and wondered if it's some kind of third-party drive? It's the opposite: Multi-Vendor is HPE's own program for sourcing the same drive SKU from multiple qualified manufacturers — same HPE part number

In July 2015, Intel and Micron announced a memory technology they said would be 1,000 times faster than NAND flash. We covered the announcement the day it happened. A decade later, 3D XPoint has been built, sold as Intel Optane, deployed in

"512e" on an HPE drive spec sheet means the drive uses modern 4K physical sectors while presenting classic 512-byte sectors to your server — the "e" is for emulation. Once an early-adopter curiosity, 512e is now the default for enterp