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 ...

Brien runs down how you can get the most out of Windows Server 2012 R2's newest tiered storage functionality. One of the most welcome new features in Windows Server 2012 R2 is the ability to create ...

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 ...

Linux 3.10 was released by Linus Torvalds last night, bringing with it a new method of SSD caching and some upgrades to the Radeon graphics driver. “This release has been pretty typical and not ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here's why your next SSD needs to be bigger than you think ...

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 ...