It’s about time for an update for Hackaday’s latest project – a modern retrocomputer based on the Motorola 68000 CPU. In this update, we’ll be taking a look at the enclosure, the backplane itself, and ...

The CS383’s eight-drive, hot-swappable backplane makes its potential use as a massive network attached storage (NAS) chassis a given, but then there's the rest of the case: NAS systems don’t often ...

Ever-increasing volumes of traffic strain the capacities of computing and communications gear. Boosting port speeds from 100Mbps Ethernet to 1Gbps Ethernet – and now to 10Gbps Ethernet – on servers, ...

The problem of persistent and reliable storage plagues us all. There are a myriad of solutions, some more expensive than others, but a dedicated and redundant network attached storage solution is ...

High-speed interconnects may be used to link chips, boards or systems. The distance between target devices is the major difference. Chip-to-chip interconnects normally span less than 20 inches, are ...

The rate of adoption of serial technology in high-end system design has reached critical mass. As shown in Fig 1, this point is supported by the fact that 92% of respondents in a recent EE Times ...

You may have heard the buzz by now about a young startup that’s being fueled by some pretty impressive star power, including the likes of the one and only Lady Gaga. The project, called Backplane, was ...