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 ...

A new 990 NVMe SSD from Samsung is always welcome, but I’d be happier if it were faster with long writes and cheaper.

Browse home lab forums for a few minutes, and you’re bound to come across dozens of tips to boost your Network-Attached Storage server’s capabilities. Many of these, like enabling SMB multichannel and ...

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 ...

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 ...

You can get higher performance in virtual machines and random I/O operations when using an SSD cache on compatible models. For mass storage, the cost-per-GB ratio of traditional platter hard drives ...

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 ...