Many new PCs come with solid state drives because SSDs make booting up your PC and accessing data faster. But adding an SSD to an existing computer can be a problem. Most of us can’t afford an SSD big ...

Last week, Intel announced its new Optane drives meant for server and HPC configurations. Today, the company is announcing its PC client version. The new drives will ship in 16GB and 32GB capacities.

When solid-state drives first broke into the consumer market, there were those who predicted the new storage format would supplant hard drives in a matter of years thanks to radically improved ...

It's a cool thing to have. But a worthy investment? Maybe not.

Why it matters: A RAM drive is traditionally conceived as a block of volatile memory "formatted" to be used as a secondary storage disk drive. RAM disks are extremely fast compared to HDDs or even ...

Though it’s extremely affordable, the BX200 suffers the worst sustained write performance of any SSD we’ve ever tested. That said, day to day performance is quite good. But unless the price drops ...

Guys I'm getting ready to create a raid 5 array on a Perc5i the only problem is my drives don't matchin terms of drive cache. Now with that said all of my drives are 500 gig sata 7200 rpm expect two ...