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Four Gen5 M.2 SSDs, one PCIe x16 slot, 55.6GB/s reads and 10.1 million random write IOPS. HighPoint's $399 Rocket 1604L ...
06/19/2026

Four Gen5 M.2 SSDs, one PCIe x16 slot, 55.6GB/s reads and 10.1 million random write IOPS. HighPoint's $399 Rocket 1604L hits 94 to 100% of the installed drives' rated performance by using an Astera Labs retimer instead of a switch, so the card adds bays without becoming the bottleneck. Needs x4/x4/x4/x4 bifurcation, so think Threadripper, Xeon W, or server boards. Full review at the link in bio.

No new boxes from Everpure this round, and that is kind of the point. What you are looking at, FlashArray //XL and //X, ...
06/18/2026

No new boxes from Everpure this round, and that is kind of the point. What you are looking at, FlashArray //XL and //X, FlashBlade //S and //EXA, are platforms already shipping. What changed at the event is the intelligence wrapping them.

The headline is a move to data-primacy: data that carries its own context, governance, and lifecycle independent of any single app, so AI agents read from one trusted source instead of a dozen silos.

What is actually new: Everpure Data Intelligence (formerly 1touch.io) is available now to discover, classify, and map data across on-prem, cloud, and SaaS, with a semantic knowledge graph that cuts the context window and tokens an agent burns. On the platform side, Evergreen//One Overdrive arrives in Q3 to absorb workload spikes up to 25% over baseline without a permanent capacity bump, plus Copilot natural-language operations and cyber anomaly detection that watches the whole fleet, not one array at a time.

That //EXA tucked under the NVIDIA switches is the AI-factory tie-in. Same metal, smarter data layer.

Photos by Kevin at the event. Full breakdown of every update at the link in bio.

Pure Storage

Kioxia's CD9P-R is a read-first Gen5 SSD, and our 7.68TB sample showed why: about 30 µs of 4K random read latency at QD1...
06/18/2026

Kioxia's CD9P-R is a read-first Gen5 SSD, and our 7.68TB sample showed why: about 30 µs of 4K random read latency at QD1, close to half the comparison group, plus 14,235.9 MB/s on 128K sequential read. It scales to 61.44TB in the 2.5-inch model and 30.72TB in E3.S, all at 1 DWPD. Writes sit mid-pack on purpose; this one is built for read-heavy cloud, CDN, and AI pipelines. Full review on the website.

06/18/2026

A closer look at the HPE ProLiant Compute DL340e Gen12 storage server. Up to 24 LFF drives up front, up to 10 EDSFF NVMe in the rear, single Intel Xeon 6. The hybrid layout pairs disk capacity with NVMe speed for caching and metadata, and the rear NVMe bank swaps out for up to six PCIe slots if you'd rather have expansion.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

06/16/2026

A first full look at NVIDIA Vera in a real server. HPE's ProLiant Compute DL394 Gen12 is a 2U, air-cooled system in NVIDIA's MGX form factor: a monolithic (single-die, no NUMA) Vera CPU at 1.2 TB/s LPDDR5X (up to 14 GB/s per core), ConnectX-8 and BlueField networking, E1.S SSDs and power up front. Built for agentic AI. Ships fall 2026. Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Up close with the HPE Juniper Networking QFX5252 from Discover 2026. This one's a switch tray built for AMD Helios, the ...
06/16/2026

Up close with the HPE Juniper Networking QFX5252 from Discover 2026. This one's a switch tray built for AMD Helios, the scale-up networking module that wires up rack-scale AI systems. The whole point is feeding the GPUs: low-latency, high-bandwidth fabric to keep them from sitting idle waiting on the network. It's part of HPE's push to extend AI Factory architectures past the centralized data center, paired with a new QFX5140 aimed at inference and edge clusters. Swipe through for the hardware.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

06/15/2026

The Brady M511 is a portable Bluetooth label printer, and the part we like is multi-user: up to five devices on Bluetooth at once, so multiple techs print to one unit. Kevin tags XE9680 Ethernet ports while Dylan runs the security cam job off the same printer. Wrap labels instead of airflow-blocking flags, auto cut, 300 dpi, grab and wrap in real time.

Brady Corp

A storage array that notices ransomware on its own in four to five minutes. We worked through HPE's full cyber resilienc...
06/12/2026

A storage array that notices ransomware on its own in four to five minutes. We worked through HPE's full cyber resilience stack built around the Alletra Storage MP B10000: block-level entropy detection validated against 100+ ransomware strains, immutable Virtual Lock snapshots that a compromised admin account can't delete, Zerto continuous replication, and StoreOnce as the backup of last resort. When the engine fired in our simulated attack, the array preserved a forensic snapshot before any human got involved. Full NIST CSF 2.0 breakdown at the link in our bio.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

06/10/2026

ASUS at Computex 2026. The ExpertCenter Pro ET900N G3 is a GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra workstation with 748GB of coherent memory, up to 20 petaFLOPS, and a 1600W supply on a full liquid loop. Out front, the ProArt P14 and P16 notebooks run NVIDIA RTX Spark with 128GB of unified memory. The signed tower? That is Jensen's handwriting. ASUS

06/09/2026

ASUS went deep on storage at Computex 2026. A 1U box with 12 U.2 NVMe bays (eight in front, four squeezed inside), an 80-bay JBOD engineered to kill drive vibration in dense configs, a 60-bay hybrid mixing HDDs, NVMe and an AMD CPU in one chassis, and the all-NVMe VS320D-RS26N unified array. Dense, fast, and built for partners like Weka and IBM. ASUS

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