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 ...

With the upheaval taking place in the memory market, a new rumor has emerged about the demise of the Serial Advanced ...

They're slower, but they're still viable.

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 ...

I see that prices for 1Tb SSDs have deflated seriously since the last time I went disk shopping. What hasn't really changed apparently is that the cheaper SSDs can be surprisingly slow if not even ...

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 ...

Plextor’s latest NVMe SSD delivers big time on looks and price, while still providing adequate NVMe performance with read speeds three times as fast as SATA, and write times twice as fast except ...

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Replacing hard disk drives with NAND flash-based solid state drives (SSDs) dramatically improved I/O performance, even over top of the line 15,000 RPM enterprise drives. Access times dropped from 6-12 ...

In other words, if I already have a system with all six SATA ports taken up (1 SSD boot drive, 1 DVD-RW, and 4 HDDs), would I have to sacrifice any of those devices if I connected an NVMe to my M.2 ...