Ars Technica

HP DL380 G6 - BIOS default is to have Disk Write cache "disabled" - performance hit?

Going through the BIOS menu afterward I noticed that the default for Advanced Options > Drive Write Cache is "Disabled". Does this mean that all the drivex in the box (which are attached to the ...
MCPmag

Troubleshooting Disk Troubles, or How to Speak SAN-ish

Insights from a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer on how to identify poor disk performance conditions and how to communicate the problem to SAN administrators and vendors.Insights from a Microsoft ...
Electronic Design

What’s The Difference Between Hardware And Software Hybrid Disk Drives?

Computer storage is becoming more complicated (see “The Storage Hierarchy Gets More Complex”). Users now can choose between hard disks (HDs), solid-state disks (SSDs), and solid-state hard disks ...
PC Gamer

You can create a RAM disk within the 3D V-Cache of an AMD X3D CPU if you really want to

Now here's something interesting, if only for interest's sake. Twitter/X user Nemez managed to create a RAM disk held within the Level 3 cache of an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D processor and the results make ...
Computerworld

New hybrid drives promise faster Vista laptops, PCs, servers

Your next Windows laptop could run faster and last longer on a single battery charge thanks to a new generation of hybrid hard disk drives and a feature in the ...
Ars Technica

BSoD: hardware_disk - bad hard drives or is my motherboard controller dying?

This is a 5 year old computer. It was having BSoD issues for quite some time. I read the minidumps and came up with hardware_disk. Further investigation and I thought it was a closed book case of a ...