Electronic Design

What’s The Difference Between Hardware And Software Hybrid Disk Drives?

Computer storage is becoming more complicated (see “The Storage Hierarchy Gets More Complex”). Users now can choose between hard disks (HDs), solid-state disks (SSDs), and solid-state hard disks ...
MCPmag

Troubleshooting Disk Troubles, or How to Speak SAN-ish

Insights from a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer on how to identify poor disk performance conditions and how to communicate the problem to SAN administrators and vendors.Insights from a Microsoft ...
Ars Technica

HP DL380 G6 - BIOS default is to have Disk Write cache "disabled" - performance hit?

Going through the BIOS menu afterward I noticed that the default for Advanced Options > Drive Write Cache is "Disabled". Does this mean that all the drivex in the box (which are attached to the ...
PC Gamer

You can create a RAM disk within the 3D V-Cache of an AMD X3D CPU if you really want to

A very fast, but very small 32MB RAM drive. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Add us as a preferred source on Google Now here's ...