AMD’s Big Bet on ARM Powered Servers: Opteron A1100 Revealed

Looks like CDN farms might find a new processor king in the near future.... AMD  are really doing some innovative stuff with Mantle and now this. Good to see them keeping Intel humble.  

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8362/amds-big-bet-on-arm-powered-servers-a1100-revealed

FreeNAS 9.2.1-RELEASE announced

Seems to get better and better with every update! The plugins are also being well maintained.

I've not fully played with Plex yet but that looks pretty capable as well.

http://www.freebsdnews.net/2014/02/08/freenas-9-2-1-release-announced/

The Trick To Disposing of Nuclear Waste Could Be Turning It Into Glass

Check out the article at Gizmodo:

http://gizmodo.com/the-trick-to-disposing-of-nuclear-waste-could-be-turnin-1460118231?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_twitter&utm_source=gizmodo_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

Mega exits BETA.

Rose from the ashes of MegaUpload. Claims to keep your data securely stored in the cloud...

http://mega.co.nz

SSD overclocking - Say whaaat?

Probably not a good idea to push the boundaries on this one... (corrupt data is bad!)

http://hexus.net/tech/news/storage/59597-ssd-overclocking-demonstrated-intel-pax-prime/

Want smaller than mSATA? M.2 (formerly NGFF) is coming..

See the details over at Anandtech.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6293/ngff-ssds-putting-an-end-to-proprietary-ultrabook-ssd-form-factors

Now if only other desktop components could start to shrink while increasing performance

Intel Brings TRIM to RAID-0 SSD Arrays on 7-Series Motherboards, We Test It

The CPU and the motherboard might cost a bomb at the moment but you can get some impressive results for the SSD's with Intel's TRIM for RAID-0!! (latest gen only )

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6161/intel-brings-trim-to-raid0-ssd-arrays-on-7series-motherboards-we-test-it