With AI data centers swallowing the world's entire supply of memory chips, both DRAM and NAND are now in a severe shortage, ...

The Intel Optane acted as a go-between that worked to increase HDD speeds by increasing memory capacities. Due to its expense ...

Adaptec last week heated up the solid state drive business with an expansion of its MaxIQ Solid State Drive (SSD) caching product line. The company released three new PCIe storage controllers and ...

(1) Solid state storage used as a cache between the computer's main memory (RAM) and a hard drive. The SSD cache holds the data with the most activity, and reading and writing the cache is faster than ...

The reasons for these slowdowns can vary depending on the SSD and wider system it's connected to, but for cheaper flash storage, it can be caused by the SLC cache. This can cause transfer speeds grind ...

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 ...

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 ...

Earlier this month, Intel launched first SSD with 3D XPoint Technology, the Optane SSD DC P4800X. Boasting incredible performance at low queue depths with high endurance, it’s targeted squarely at ...

Marvell announced the availability of the Marvell® DragonFly NVDRIVE, a turnkey enterprise-class PCIe SSD caching solution with built-in SSD modules that extends the company’s award-winning DragonFly ...

How to add an SSD cache to your Synology NAS (and why you’d want to) Your email has been sent For mass storage, the cost-per-GB ratio of traditional platter hard drives can’t be matched by solid-state ...

Like the RevoDrive Hybrid, the brains behind the Synapse's caching functionality is a third-party software utility dubbed Dataplex. OCZ doesn't include the software ...

Here at HEXUS we get inundated with people asking one particular question; 'which upgrades should I get?'. And it's interesting to see the way in which our replies evolve as new components become ...