Hard drives have long utilized small bits of cache memory to boost performance, and some recent hybrid hard drives already combine up to 256MB of NAND flash memory with traditional platter-based ...

Moving the head takes a lot longer than waiting for the sector to come around. So low seek times (the time to move the head) are critical to good disk performance. Access time (time to find a sector) ...

Saving space on your Mac hard drive is a key strategy, especially when you’re using a Macbook Air, with it’s strictly solid state drive (SSD). Even if you’re using a desktop Mac with a hard drive that ...

Intel’s first consumer-grade 3D Xpoint memory solution is going on sale this week. First unveiled in March, Intel Optane Memory is basically a small solid state drive using a new type of memory ...

The Intel Optane acted as a go-between that worked to increase HDD speeds by increasing memory capacities. Due to its expense ...

This workload uses a trace of importing a collection of images in Windows Live Photo Gallery. A USB stick with 68 images (434MB total) was inserted and images were imported to Windows Live Photo ...

As fast and in some cases faster than Seagate’s pricier 12TB offerings, but as affordable as its rival’s cheaper 12TB drives. That’s a win/win situation when you’re shopping for a high-capacity hard ...

There are many files that help make your system usable, but they can build up over time. System logs, for example, keep track of usage, errors, and services running on your Mac, but unless you look at ...