Samsung’s 850 Pro SSD is out on the market and it’s damned impressive. Combine Vertical NAND with the drive’s performance enhancing Rapid Mode, and the 850 Pro destroys all comers. ​ In the world of SSDs, the Samsung 850 Pro $199.99 is a major achievement. Up until now, all of the advances in SSD technology have come from either shrinking the size of the memory cells through using smaller process nodes, or through packing more data into each cell. For years, that approach won

Intel has released a new batch of Xeon chips — the Xeon E5 v3 range – and by all accounts it’s the most impressive set of server products the company has shipped in years. While these new chips are based on the now-familiar Haswell core, they aren’t just retreads of existing silicon — Intel has pushed core counts all the way up to 18 cores per socket, integrated sophisticated new Turbo mechanisms, added new forms of cache monitoring, moved its entire platform over to DDR4, an