Saving space on your Mac hard drive is a key strategy, especially when you’re using a Macbook Air, with it’s strictly solid state drive (SSD). Even if you’re using a desktop Mac with a hard drive that ...

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) ...

Multiple PC OEMs are selling laptops outfitted with Intel Optane cache drives -- but they're improperly combining that information in ways that makes it seem as if the Optane cache drive represents ...

Though it’s a TLC NAND-based drive, Crucial has endowed this 750GB SSD with enough cache (30GB) to cover nearly all common write operations, not just smaller daily ones. It’s relatively inexpensive as ...

Three years ago, I wrote a story comparing hard disk drives to solid state drives (SSDs) based on capacity, performance and cost. A lot has changed in three years. For one, laptops are quickly being ...

The Panther Poll This thread asks "What are your plans regarding the installation of Mac OS X 10.3 "Panther)?" Panther Installed? How Did It Go? This thread contains general discussion about ...

The hard drive performance trick nobody uses anymore (and why you shouldn't either) ...

Which internal hard drive is best? Think of an internal hard drive as both the mind and heart of your computer. It stores all your data, all your software and, most importantly, your operating system.

The Windows 7 boot time test starts when the OS loading screen appears and ends when the Windows desktop is fully loaded. On the first run the Crucial Adrenaline performed much like the Western ...