It's a well-known fact that solid-state drives (SSDs) are faster and superior to old mechanical hard drive disks, which are more commonly called HDDs (via Enterprise Storage Platform). An archaic ...

The face of the datacenter is changing, and radical new approaches are emerging that provide more options for high-performance storage solutions. The size of the server rack has been shrinking quickly ...

SSD is an auxiliary storage device that uses semiconductor memory, and is superior to HDD in terms of read/write speed, quietness, power consumption, and shock resistance. SSDs are further divided ...

If you've ever used a USB hub, you understand the concept of a SATA port multiplexer. These would take one SATA port and ...

The talk of next-gen SSDs really began with the announcement and launch of Intel's Z97 chipset, which brought along support for SATA Express and M.2 connectivity. These were standardised in the SATA 3 ...

I have a self-built PC I put together a few years ago in a Fractal Design Arc Midi case. Up till now, it had two drives installed: a 128GB Samsung 830 SSD I was using as the boot partition, and then a ...

On Thursday, the SATA-IO group paved the way for SATA Express, putting PCI Express speeds over a SATA interface for the next generation of ultrafast solid-state discs, or SSDs. Specifically, the ...

Asus has been shipping Eee PC units with solid state disks since day one. But by disks, I mean little flash memory modules that you can slot into various connectors on an Eee PC motherboard. Now ...

A collapse in price for NAND flash memory and a shrinking gap between the prices of PCI Express-based and SATA-based solid-state drives (SSDs) means the shift to PCI Express SSDs will accelerate in ...

M.2 is the connection pretty much everyone is talking about when it comes to next-gen SSDs, and as already mentioned its spurt in popularity really began when the Z97 chipset was launched. M.2 is ...