Intel’s Optane Module will make a world of difference for users stuck with traditional hard drives. Those drives must be in higher-end Kaby Lake systems running Windows 10, though. Intel’s Optane ...

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 ...

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 ...

With modern hardware upgrades and caching techniques, you can significantly speed up an external hard drive's write times. Hard drives include a cache area for storing frequently accessed data, but ...

The first run saw the Crucial Adrenaline deliver a throughput of 66.5MB/s making it just 4% faster than the Western Digital RE4 1TB without the SSD cache. However if we ran the test multiple times the ...

For over a decade, Seagate's high-end consumer drives were branded as Barracuda's. In 2013 the company unofficially retired the name, choosing instead to refer to its desktop drives as "Desktop HDD." ...