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Supermicro's Intermediate Server Rack System the B300

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Fractal Pop 2 Air Quick Build

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Building a Somewhat More Affordable AM5 Server in the Silverstone RM32 3U Case!

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Building a PC to help with the Existential Dread (w/ PZ MSI Mobo and Fractal North XL Momentum Case)

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Fractal Pop 2 Air Quick Build

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Upgrading the HL 15 and Rambling about 45 Drives Creator Summit

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What is the Least Expensive Threadripper Build Without Losing too much Performance?

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256 GB on AM5: E-Z Mode!

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SilverStone CS383: A Case for True Professionals

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Fractal Epoch: The Perfect PC Case for Beginners?

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Run Deepseek locally on a 24g GPU: Quantizing on our Giga Computing 6980P Xeon


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Minisforum MS O2 Ultra Is a Fantasy Level Mini PC

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Is Custom Building a Forbidden Router in 2025 a Good Idea? Featuring Editor Grant

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Strix Halo Mini PC vs DIY Build -- Does it make sense for Gaming? For AI? What for?

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Minisforum MS S1 Max AI Review, Benchmarks, and Comfy UI Setup Guide

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More Strix Halo MADNESS With The GMKtec EVO-X2 Mini PC!

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Showcasing the New MSI Cubi NUC AI+ 2mg on the Server Crash Cart!

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Minisforum UM680 Slim: A Mini PC Masterpiece?

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Small Form Factor Workstation: Reviewing and Benchmarking the Minisforum MS-A2

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Phantom Gaming B850i Lighting WiFi Review

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Keeping up with AI with the Minisforum X1 AI Mini PC Ft. 96GB Memory


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Intel's Battle Matrix Benchmarks and Review

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Minisforum M1 Pro 285H Review

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SuperCompute 2025 was NUTS! Here's a Few Cool Things I Saw

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AMD's New Redstone Driver: Performance Gains for Radeon 9070 and 9070 XT, But There's a Catch

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Building a Decent Intel Workstation for Relatively Cheap

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What is the Least Expensive Threadripper Build Without Losing too much Performance?

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Intel i915 SR-IOV Mode for Flex 170 + Updated for Proxmox 9 PVE Kernel 6.14.8

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How does the Intel Core Ultra 9 GMKtec EVO-T1 Measure Up to Strix Halo?

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OMG INTEL B50 SR-IOV Linux!

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Is the Sand Thinking? Intel's 18A process at Fab52 w/ Panther Lake and Xeon 6+ Preview


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256 GB on AM5: E-Z Mode!

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Cooling Two Epyc CPUs with the Silverstone XE360P-DD!

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The Level1 Links With Friends Show June 3 2025: Grand Theft Wind

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Intel Has a Problem Part 2: Post Mortem: Revived. But the Aftermath?


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“AI Factory” Isn’t a Metaphor — It’s a Design Pattern (And That Changes Everything)

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Intel B70 -- Arc Pro Battlemage Lands with 32gb VRAM, 600+ GB/sec bandwidth, and more

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Teaching a Robot how to Game with Turnstone and Nvidia VSS!

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Best 120b Model for Offline Use? Nemotron 3 Super Out Now

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What Do You Want to Run on this 4 DGX Spark Cluster? Preparing for GTC '26 #tech #nvidia

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DGX and RTX 6000s at SC 25

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4x Radeon AI Pro R9700 in a single system! And HAProxy: Owning the Means of Production

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NVIDIA and Mercedes-Benz are giving Tesla a run for its Money!

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Running Vision-Language AI Locally: Building something fun with Jetson, Small Models, and Big Ideas

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SuperCompute 2025 was NUTS! Here's a Few Cool Things I Saw


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Where's My Framework 16?! A Chat with Tom Lawrence on Upgrading Wendell's old Laptop

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The Level1 Links With Friends Show June 18 2025: Itty Bitty Xbox

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Phison's NEW SSD Controller: Better Laptop Battery, Faster Performance!

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The HP Zbook Ultra G1A MONSTER Laptop Linux Setup Guide!

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ROG Flow z13 Using Linux!

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The Level1 Links With Friends Show May 21 2025: Bye Bye Bing Search

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128 gigs of RAM in this ROG Flow Z13 Tablet!?

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MinisForum's MDSA156 15.6" Dual Portable Monitor Quick Overview

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The Level1 Show March 18 2025: Et Tu, Graber?

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The Level1 Show March 12 2025: UBlock Pushed Over the Edge


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What Exactly is the Deal with DDR5?

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This G.Skill Memory Won't Throttle? And ASUS has a Bug

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Sapphire Makes Motherboards? Sapphire Nitro+ B850A Wifi7 Review

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What is the Least Expensive Threadripper Build Without Losing too much Performance?

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Testing 256GB of GSKill DDR5 6000 on AM5!

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No E? X870 Nova Wifi Motherboard Review and Memory Chat

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A Deep Dive into Threadripper 9000!

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Beware DDR5 Silent Throttling! Buy/Don't Buy V-color Testing at DDR5 7200/ 8000 for Threadripper

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Live: Kicking it with RTX 6000 Blackwell. 600 watts, 96gb ram

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The Level1 Links With Friends Show April 30 2025: Driverless GPUs


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Dell Sent Wendell a New Monitor for the Studio: Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor - U5226KW

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An OLED Monitor For the Office: DELL QD-OLED S3225QC

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Creating a PCIe Bifurcation Solution for AI Councils

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Checking Out MSI's BLAZING FAST 500hz 1440p OLED Monitor!

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Checking Out The Minisforum N5 Pro NAS: Excelsior!

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This 240hz OLED Gaming Monitor is Wendell's Dream Monitor: Ft The ASRock PG032UFS Gaming Monitor

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MSI MP251 E2 Quick Review and Overview

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520Hz Gaming Monitor: The PG27FFX2A from Phantom Gaming

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Building a PC to help with the Existential Dread (w/ PZ MSI Mobo and Fractal North XL Momentum Case)

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Mini PCs Need Some New Rules! Ft: Minisforum BD895i SE Motherboard

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Building a Decent Intel Workstation for Relatively Cheap

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What is the Least Expensive Threadripper Build Without Losing too much Performance?

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256 GB on AM5: E-Z Mode!

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Is One Socket Enough? Intel's Flagship 128-core Xeon in the Supermicro SYS-212HA-TN vs ZEN 5!

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Why is the Gigabyte TRX50 AI Top the Most Returned Threadripper Motherboard?

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No E? X870 Nova Wifi Motherboard Review and Memory Chat

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Supermicro's H14SSL-N Motherboard Review and Build

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A Xeon 6 1 Socket Server with 136 GEN 5 PCIe Lanes from Supermicro


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Is Custom Building a Forbidden Router in 2025 a Good Idea? Featuring Editor Grant

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Checking Out The Minisforum N5 Pro NAS: Excelsior!

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What's the state of 25g switching in the UniFi Universe?

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No E? X870 Nova Wifi Motherboard Review and Memory Chat

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MSI B850I Edge TI WIFI Motherboard Review

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ASRock x870 Steel Legend WiFi 7 Motherboard Overview

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The Level1 Links With Friends Show June 20 2025: #FreeEd


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A New Silverstone 5u Case for our Storage Server and Virtual Machines! (Featuring a FSP 1600w PSU)

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What is the Least Expensive Threadripper Build Without Losing too much Performance?

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The Level1 Links With Friends Show May 28 2025: Do Svidaniya, Playstation

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ASRock PSU??? Steel Legend SL-1000G #asrock quick look, powering threadripper and epyc. vids soon

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The Level1 Show July 26 2024: Racing Cane's

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The Level1 Show June 17th 2024: A Fine They Can't Refuse

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My Power!? Its uninterruptable! (and also RGB) -- ft Tripp Lite Smart 1200 PSGLCD


Storage

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SPRANDOM: The Best Benchmarking Standard for Storage?

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7 Things to Know about Proxmox! (esp. for VMWare Refugees)

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The Beelink ME Pro is the Tiniest Storage Server I've Ever Seen! I used it as a Proxmox Backup Host

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Adam/EposVox and Wendell's Storinator Storage Upgrade Adventure! Level1Diagnostic

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Server SSD Innovation from Solidigm

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A New Silverstone 5u Case for our Storage Server and Virtual Machines! (Featuring a FSP 1600w PSU)

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Checking Out The Minisforum N5 Pro NAS: Excelsior!

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256 GB on AM5: E-Z Mode!

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Upgrading @GamersNexus Storage Server! Feat. 45Drives and Kioxia!

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Is Hardware Raid TRULY Dead? SupremeRAID SR-1010, Reviewed

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Minisforum MS O2 Ultra Is a Fantasy Level Mini PC

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Its a thicc boi! And a heck of a lot of m.2!
Check it out here: https://store.minisforum.com/products/minisforum-ms-02-ultra

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Is Custom Building a Forbidden Router in 2025 a Good Idea? Featuring Editor Grant

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You might remember our forbidden router series from a few years ago, but is it really a good idea to build your own router? Wendell and Grant investigate!

ASUS Router (not forbidden): http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DGZZJ996/?tag=level1techs-20

Minisforum N5 Pro: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQV7FD2T/?tag=level1techs-20

Mikrotik Switch: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0723DT6MN/?tag=level1techs-20

Mini PC (doesn't have to be this exact one): http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C3QHDVYL/?tag=level1techs-20

Check out the forum here: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/grants-forbidden-router-adventure-wip/2…

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Building a Monster Threadripper System in the All New Fractal Epoch XL

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Check out the forum thread here: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/fractal-epoch-xl-threadripper-build-wit…

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WRX90 Madness! Building a Fire Breathing Threadripper Pro System!

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We recently built a sensible TRX50 system, but what's the fun in that when you can throw caution to the wind and build something truly crazy?

Check out the forum thread here: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/the-ultimate-guide-to-building-a-thread…

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DIY vs Prebuilt - Testing the MSI DP400

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Wendell asked to borrow this thing for some testing, so he decided to make a video about it too. Prebuilds aren't just for gamers! Lets take a look at this high end build and see what it's made of!

Currently not available, but soon™
https://us.msi.com/Business-Productivity-PC/Pro-DP400-AI/shopnow

0:00 Intro
0:29 Unboxing and Overview Breakdown
4:56 Testing Setup
5:56 Testing Results
6:08 HardwareInfo64
7:56 First Set of Benchmarks
9:05 Thermal Limit
9:23 Expansion
9:45 Two GPUs?
10:50 CPUs
11:34 Second Set of Benchmarks
15:40 AI
17:47 Conclusions

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What is the Least Expensive Threadripper Build Without Losing too much Performance?

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Wanna build this yourself? Check out the stuff here:

Motherboard: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CPW1F841/level1techs-20

For the CPU, buying a used one might be the better option. But there isn't always a used, good, cheap one. If that's the case, might as well buy new.
New 7970x: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CK2W3WFP/level1techs-20
Used 7970x: https://ebay.us/SWKukv

GPU: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DTT4H4QJ/level1techs-20

Memory: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CQJH1K4C/level1techs-20

Case: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CS3TNXBW/level1techs-20

Power Supply: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DMQ48XKK/level1techs-20

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Strix Halo Mini PC vs DIY Build -- Does it make sense for Gaming? For AI? What for?

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Strix Halo is great, but is it the best you can do for gaming and other workloads at its price point? Wendell investigates!

https://forum.level1techs.com/t/so-strix-halo-is-cool-huh-should-i-buy-…

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256 GB on AM5: E-Z Mode!

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Yes, it's possible! Here is everything you need to consider when building.

0:00 Intro
0:38 Case
1:37 Motherboard and DIMMs
7:20 Fans and Configurations and Cooling
9:58 GPUs
12:20 PSUs
13:39 Storage
20:40 Special Shout Out
22:14 Putting the Build to Work
23:22 Conclusion

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Minisforum MS S1 Max AI Review, Benchmarks, and Comfy UI Setup Guide

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It's time for another small form factor pc! This time as a small form factor server? Check it out!!

Forum Guide here: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/minisforum-ms-s1-max-comfy-ui-guide/237…

0:00 Intro
1:47 Overview and Strix
4:01 Tear Down
5:46 Bios Tour
7:56 Thunderbolt 5 and Chroma Dock
9:11 Benchmarks
16:13 What Can We Get Away With?
17:37 Rack Server?
19:41 Comfy How To
30:07 Linux and AI?
31:10 Conclusion

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Is Hardware Raid TRULY Dead? SupremeRAID SR-1010, Reviewed

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We declared Hardware Raid to be truly dead a couple years ago, but like vinyl records and Westerns, some things never truly die. Check it out!

0:00 - Intro
1:39 - Overview
7:07 - Benchmarks
15:26 - Data Integrity
26:00 - CPU Considerations and Possible Hangups
31:05 - Outro

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