Processor vendors have continued to ramp the performance of individual processor cores, to combine multiple…

PCI-Express (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) or PCIe is a bus standard that replaced PCI and…

Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is a communication protocol traditionally used to move data between storage…

Both wear leveling techniques rely on the availability of free sectors that can be filled…

A memory controller has two fundamental tasks: 1. provide the most suitable interface and protocol…

Capacity Obviously it‟s important to get a drive that‟s big enough to hold your operating…

Advantages Speed This is the biggest reason to go for an SSD; they‟re much, much…

As you can see from the picture above, the main difference between a hard drive…

5.25” This has always been a favourite form factor for the DRAM SSD, as it…

Technology DRAM This is one of the oldest kinds of SSDs but is still reasonably…