I attended my favorite storage conference last week in Silicon Valley, File And Storage Technology (FAST). This is the foremost gathering of corporate and academic researchers and practitioners in the ...

The second generation software, which is compatible with LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260, 9261 and 9280 series controllers, is the industry's first SSD dedicated controller caching technology to offer both read ...

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NVELO have opened their arms to The SSD Guy, who provided the site with some benchmark data comparing the company's Dataplex software's performance versus Intel's iSRT caching software that is getting ...

The reasons for these slowdowns can vary depending on the SSD and wider system it's connected to, but for cheaper flash ...

I've got a Core i5-based gaming machine with a Z68 chipset, and a basic 1TB Seagate HDD. My intention is to start using Intel's Z68 caching, which seems straightforward enough, but I had an idea that ...

Compared with hard-disk drives (HDDs), solid-state drives (SSDs) are more robust against shock, consume less power, use capacity more efficiently, and offer longer life, faster access times, and ...

Flash storage provides significantly more performance (IOPS and throughput) and lower latency than hard disk-based media. Of course, flash comes with a higher price tag – up to 10 times more than ...

The effects of outdated firmware might not be readily apparent, but it could be contributing to subpar maintenance, ...

A reserved area of RAM that is used to quickly store new or revised data. During idle machine cycles, the contents of the write cache are copied to storage (disk, SSD). If a computer or storage device ...

At the bottom of the post there're two or three specific questions, but for the beginning let's start (I'll try to be as short as possible) with the whole story... Now, the computer was still under ...