Upgrading a computer's boot drive from a traditional hard drive to an SSD is one of the single best performance upgrades ever. But, if you're like many of us, when you did it SSDs were expensive, and ...
Because of what SSDs are, solid-state drives (SSDs) are a core component of any modern PC, whether it’s a traditional SATA SSD or a more modern NVMe drive. Knowing the difference between these two ...
The realm of storage, as is the case of any other technology, is full of jargon and terminology unique to the technology itself. The sheer volume of terms can quickly become baffling to the average ...
This article is part of the Technology Insight series, made possible with funding from Intel. NAND flash media solid state drives (SSDs) have largely displaced hard disk drives (HDDs) in client ...
Solid-state drives are universally faster than old-school hard-disk drives, but not all SSDs are the same. They come in different shapes and sizes, have different maximum speeds, and as you might ...
I see that prices for 1Tb SSDs have deflated seriously since the last time I went disk shopping. What hasn't really changed apparently is that the cheaper SSDs can be surprisingly slow if not even ...
The rise of flash storage has been a dominant theme in the datacentre in recent years. And rightly so, with performance in the order of 100 times better than spinning disk media. But there are always ...
NVMe is no longer a nice-to-have storage technology—if you’re shopping for a new PC, it’s a feature you should actively seek out. Moreover, if your PC is of fairly recent vintage, you should upgrade ...
This article is part of the Technology Insight series, made possible with funding from Intel. In our previous discussion of these competing protocols for solid state drives (SSDs), there was a big ...
The IntelliProp IPP-NV186A-BR is an NVMe-to-SATA Bridge that utilizes the IntelliProp NVMe Target IP Core and the IntelliProp SATA AHCI Host Core to c ...