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 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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

Many new PCs come with solid state drives because SSDs make booting up your PC and accessing data faster. But adding an SSD to an existing computer can be a problem. Most of us can’t afford an SSD big ...

Hard disk drives are often written off as legacy tech, but a closer look at what is still on sale tells a different story. After compiling a detailed list of 167 of the best hard disk drives worth ...

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." ...

Windows ReadyBoost used to be able to speed up your PC, but today, there's very little reason to use it. Why is that?