Using the popular CrystalDiskMark benchmarking suite, Twitter/X user @GPUsAreMagic posted a result showcasing some pretty incredible results - a read speed of 182 GB/s and a write speed of 175 GB/s.
We've previously shown you how to move your Firefox cache to system memory, but a dedicated RAM disk might be a better solution for serious browsing speed. The Hack a Day blog points out the how-tos ...
A storage drive simulated in memory (RAM). Also called a "virtual disk," "virtual hard drive" or "emulated disk" (e-disk), selected files are copied from storage to the RAM disk in order to speed up ...
We've seen the speed benefits of Solid State Drives (SSDs), but they also have the downside of a more limited number of writes. Technology blog Ghacks shows us how to increase an SSD's longevity by ...
Storage devices have gotten really fast lately, with the fastest PCIe 5.0 SSDs getting over 14GB/s in reads and writes, but that's nothing compared to a Ryzen CPU with 3D V-Cache. Tested by hardware ...
A coworker approached us today wondering if they could get a performance boost using Samsung’s newly announced 256GB SSD. Most of their work is done in browser, so we said “no”. They’d only see ...
The disk cache in OS X can sometimes use a fair amount of the system's RAM, and clearing it can help you figure out how much RAM your applications and system processes are using. Topher, an avid Mac ...