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 ...

Like a lot of you, I, too, wondered if it was worth splurging on NVMe drives just for caching. I mean, I could’ve spent that cash on more storage or a better CPU if I were building a DIY NAS, right?

Spread the love“`html Solid State Drives (SSDs) have revolutionized storage technology, offering users faster boot times and quicker file access compared to traditional Hard Disk Drives (HDDs).

Everyone on Reddit and YouTube portrayed SSD caching as the magic pill for every performance woe I was facing on my NAS. After a point, I started to half-expect the NAS to fly as soon as I added SSD ...

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I have a Dell PE2590 with a PERC5 handling a 6 disk RAID5 array. Write-back caching is enabled but it's defaulting to write-through. This is obviously murdering performance (writes = 30Mbps vs 300Mbps ...

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 ...

It is worth repeating this note about dm-cache versus bcache for the following reason. Developments in Linux work very much like advancements in science: 1) Reality trumps abstract theory: Working ...

SSDs are the primary storage technology for PCs, industry applications and data centers. In data centers that means they are where data frequently accessed is stored. This is because the provide ...

Adaptec last week heated up the solid state drive business with an expansion of its MaxIQ Solid State Drive (SSD) caching product line. The company released three new PCIe storage controllers and ...