NVMe solid state disk drives have become inexpensive unless you want the very largest sizes. But how do you get the most out of one? There are two basic strategies: you can use the drive as a fast ...

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Intel Tuesday said it is offering the SSD caching software it got with last year's acquisition of Nevex together with Intel SSDs as a caching solution, and that the software will soon be updated to ...

With the introduction of the solid-state Flash drive, performance came to the forefront for data storage technologies. Prior to that, software developers and server administrators needed to devise ...

The latest version of the Linux kernel has been released – bringing with it support for SSD caching and a performance boost for some server workloads. The 3.9 release, made available by Linus Torvalds ...

Using a small-capacity SSD as a cache for frequently-accessed data to boost a PC’s overall performance (leaving less speed-critical tasks to a slower and larger-capacity storage drive) is a common ...

According to IHS iSuppli, the SSD market will continue to boom this year, thanks to the rapid rise of so-called cache drives. These drives -- we reviewed a 60GB example from Corsair last month -- are ...