I have some SAS spinning disks, and SSDs, that were in enterprise storage arrays. One characteristic they share is that they are formatted to 520 bytes per block rather than 512. In order to use them ...

Your next SSD might be as compact as a microSD card ...

I realize the term "low level format" might not apply to NVME storage, but here's the situation... I've managed to recover everything I want from a stick with a corrupted filesystem. Now I'm ready to ...

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 ...

I've been bullish on NVM Express (NVMe) for the last year. Due to its efficient design, NVMe can transport more data with lower latency, and yet consume fewer CPU cycles than SATA or SAS drives. Even ...

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 ...

The Nytro XF1440 and XM1440 1.9-Tbyte and 960-Mbyte NVMe SSDs come in 2.5-in. and M.2 formats, respectively. They are optimized for read-intensive and mixed enterprise workloads. The drives feature ...