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 ...

It can be disappointing to realize that your high-end SSD, despite its impressive spec sheet, isn't delivering the snappy ...

It seems counterintuitive, but SSDs are actually much happier moving big files than dealing with a number of tiny ones. When ...

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 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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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...