The over-provisioning of NAND flash memory in solid state drives (SSDs) and flash memory-based accelerator cards (cache) is a required practice in the storage ...

Your SSD is drowning in writes, and giving it breathing room is more important than ever ...

I've been doing some research on manual over-provisioning of SSD's and the attendant performance increases and reductions in write amplification that the procedure can provide, and was wondering if ...

It should never be completely full.

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Solid-state drives contain more NAND than is required to meet the listed capacity on the box. The reasoning for this is that the controller requires some ...

When an SSD is developed it will consist of standard memory chips. They come in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB capacities. However, many Sandforce powered drives up until now typically use some of that storage ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Computex 2012 - Patriot had Wildfire Pro back on display at Computex 2012. This time we saw a working model, unlike at CES where a mock up was on display.

This is a guest post by Kent Smith, senior director of marketing for LSI's Flash Components Division, overseeing all outbound marketing and performance analysis for the company. It may sound crazy, ...