After a 7-year corporate stint, Tanveer found his love for writing and tech too much to resist. An MBA in Marketing and the owner of a PC building business, he writes on PC hardware, technology, and ...

Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building PCs since young, and when not creating content, you can often find him ...

Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) solid-state drives (SSDs) have transformed the way we store data. These drives offer speeds up to 15,000 MB/s (yes, that's 15 GB/s) that can load games, operating ...

Have you ever found yourself waiting impatiently for your Synology NAS to catch up with your demands—whether it’s loading files, running backups, or managing virtual machines? Many of us rely on NAS ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Enhancements to server and ...

SSD caching, also known as flash caching or flash memory caching, is the temporary storage of frequently-accessed data on NAND flash memory chips in a solid-state drive (SSD) to improve the drive's ...

I've got a Core i5-based gaming machine with a Z68 chipset, and a basic 1TB Seagate HDD. My intention is to start using Intel's Z68 caching, which seems straightforward enough, but I had an idea that ...

Editor's Note: This tip was updated in November 2016. The terms tiering and caching are often used interchangeably, but actually refer to two different storage acceleration techniques. Both techniques ...

Phison's Pascari X200Z 3.2TB SSD is the new standard in QLC caching, and with its massive 3.2TB of SLC flash can be ideal for other roles as well. With the rise of ultra-high capacity QLC SSDs, the ...