When I speak with IT Managers about Solid State Disk (SSD) one of the most common questions is how and where should it be implemented? There are many options but an extremely simple risk free way to ...

Have you ever found yourself waiting impatiently for your Synology NAS to catch up with your demands—whether it’s loading files, running backups, or managing virtual machines? Many of us rely on NAS ...

I thought a cache drive would supercharge my NAS, but it created an unexpected bottleneck instead ...

So, I've been working on this little project the past couple months... It's getting to the point where I'm having a pretty hard time breaking it Bcache uses SSDs to cache arbitrary block devices. It's ...

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 ...

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 ...

Adaptec on Wednesday unveiled its MaxIQ SSD Cache Performance Solution, which pairs up to four 32-GB Intel X25-E Extreme SATA SSDs with its Series 5000 or Series 2000 controllers to increase the I/O ...

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 ...

(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 ...