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 ...

Like a lot of you, I, too, wondered if it was worth splurging on NVMe drives just for caching. I mean, I could’ve spent that cash on more storage or a better CPU if I were building a DIY NAS, right?

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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 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 ...

The effects of outdated firmware might not be readily apparent, but it could be contributing to subpar maintenance, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...