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 ...

So, I've been working on this little project the past couple months... It's getting to the point where I'm having a pretty hard time breaking it Bcache uses SSDs to cache arbitrary block devices. It's ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

If you install OCZ’s latest solid-state product in your desktop or laptop, it won’t show up as a separate drive that you can drag and drop data onto. Instead, the OCZ Synapse solid-state drive (SSD) ...