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 ...

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 ...

A lot of debates have been going on regarding whether SATA is better than NVMe or vice versa. The SSD battle goes on, and to choose between the SATA and NVMe, there are a few things that need to be ...

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 ...

If you're someone who's finally switching from a mechanical hard drive to an SSD, that's great news. You're making one of the best upgrades you'll ever make to your ...

Part of the advantage of NVMe over AHCI comes from the fact that NVMe can communicate directly with the CPU, while AHCI must first go through the SATA controller. NVMe possesses up to 64K queues and ...

I, along with a huge portion of the tech press, have been extolling the virtues of solid state storage for many years. After a somewhat rocky introduction to market, the second and third wave of solid ...

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 ...

SATA drives desere a better life than living your junk drawer ...