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Seagate Introduces SSHD Lineup with Dual Mode NAND Cache
Following the announcement that the company would be axing 7200 rpm notebook drives, Seagate has introduced its third generation hybrid hard drives. The new Seagate Solid State Hybrid Drives (SSHD)...
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Western Digital's SSHD Black magic revealed
The Tech Report sat down with Matt Rutledge, Vice President of Western Digital's client computing group to discuss the software behind their new HDDs with an SSD cache. Sandisk will be providing the...
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New Samsung 840 EVO employs TLC and pseudo-SLC TurboWrite cache
Samsung's release of the 840 EVO earlier today likely prompted some questions, such as what type of flash does it employ and how does it achieve such high write speeds. Here is the short answer, with...
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HAMRs, Shingles and SSD cached HDDs; size versus speed
Enthusiasts are wholeheartedly adopting SSDs for their storage media of choice with HDDs relegated to long term storage of infrequently accessed storage. For SMB and enterprise it is not such an easy...
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Can Seagate's cached HDD compete with an SSD + HDD setup?
Benchmarking cached HDDs can be a difficult task as they are specifically designed to cache commonly used data which results in two very different speeds for data access, the 8GB SSD and the actual...
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OCZ Trion 100 240GB 480GB 960GB SATA SSD Review - Toshiba TLC
Introduction:Since their acquisition by Toshiba in early 2014, OCZ has gradually transitioned their line of SSD products to include parts provided by their parent company. Existing products were...
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Full Steam ahead! Cache your games in this DIY cache server
There are tricks to managing your Steam library if you are running low on space or simply setting up something new, from tricking Steam by copying files manually or the new feature which allows you to...
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Intel Quietly Launches Official Optane Memory Site
We've been hearing a lot about Intel's upcoming Optane memory over the past two years, but the information had all been in the form of pressannouncements and leaked roadmap slides.We now have an actual...
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30 nanoseconds is way too slow, down with the latency gap!
There is an insidious latency gap lurking in your computer between your DRAM and your CPUs L3 cache. The size of the latency depends on your processor as not all L3 cache are created equally but...
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Intel Officially Launches Optane Memory, Shows Performance
We are just about to hit two years since Intel and Micron jointly launched 3D XPoint, and therehavecertainlybeenalotofstoriesaboutitsince. Intel officially launched the P4800X last week, and this week...
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Intel Optane Memory 32GB Review - Faster Than Lightning
Introduction:Finally! Optane Memory sitting in our lab! Sure, it’s not the mighty P4800X we remotely tested over the past month, but this is right here, sitting on my desk. It’s shipping, too, meaning...
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Spent all your money on a new CPU and couldn't afford an SSD? Intel Optane...
At $44 for 16GB or $77 for a 32GB module Intel's Optane memory will cost you less in total for an M.2 SSD, though a significantly higher price per gigabyte. The catch is that you need to have a Kaby...
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X points to the spot; in 3D!
It has been a few months since Al looked at Intel's Optane and its impressive performance and price. This is why it seems appropriate to revist the 2280 M.2 stick with a PCIe 3.0 x2 interface. It is...
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Building a Steam Caching Server for Faster Game Downloads
Thanks to Wendell from Level1Techs for his all of his help on this project and pointing us in the right direction!A few years ago, we were fortunate enough to get a fiber internet connection installed...
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Synology DS1019+ Review: Powerful, Capable, Restrained
Synology this week is launching the DS1019+, a 5-bay counterpart to last year's 4-bay DS918+. Like most of the company's "Plus" series devices, it is aimed at higher-end home users and small businesses...
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