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 ...

More consumer and prosumer-grade network attached storage (NAS) ship with the ability to accelerate workloads with SSDs. We can't pinpoint when the feature rolled out because the software feature was ...

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 ...

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The effects of outdated firmware might not be readily apparent, but it could be contributing to subpar maintenance, ...

In the 2TB and 4TB capacities, this SATAa 6Gbps SSD is a lot cheaper than the competition. It’s also a very fast reader, and a fast writer—until it runs out of cache. At the 1TB level however, there ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...