Many new PCs come with solid state drives because SSDs make booting up your PC and accessing data faster. But adding an SSD to an existing computer can be a problem. Most of us can’t afford an SSD big ...

Your cheap SSD isn't actually slow—it's just running out of cache ...

Last week, Intel announced its new Optane drives meant for server and HPC configurations. Today, the company is announcing its PC client version. The new drives will ship in 16GB and 32GB capacities.

Are you tired of slow data transfers to your NAS? Well, it likely needs a SSD cache. If you don’t have a SSD as the first stop for incoming data to your NAS, then you’re doing networked storage wrong.

When solid-state drives first broke into the consumer market, there were those who predicted the new storage format would supplant hard drives in a matter of years thanks to radically improved ...

Guys I'm getting ready to create a raid 5 array on a Perc5i the only problem is my drives don't matchin terms of drive cache. Now with that said all of my drives are 500 gig sata 7200 rpm expect two ...

Though it’s a TLC NAND-based drive, Crucial has endowed this 750GB SSD with enough cache (30GB) to cover nearly all common write operations, not just smaller daily ones. It’s relatively inexpensive as ...

Why it matters: A RAM drive is traditionally conceived as a block of volatile memory "formatted" to be used as a secondary storage disk drive. RAM disks are extremely fast compared to HDDs or even ...