I finally made the jump from primarily console to PC gaming shortly after building my own in 2020, which was the absolute worst time to start a new hobby due to the then-soaring costs of PC components ...

More consumer and prosumer-grade network attached storage (NAS) ship with the ability to accelerate workloads with SSDs. We can't pinpoint when the feature rolled out because the software feature was ...

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?

With modern hardware upgrades and caching techniques, you can significantly speed up an external hard drive's write times. Hard drives include a cache area for storing frequently accessed data, but ...

So while mucking around I noticed that my external hard drive is set to 'Optimize for Quick Removal' which disables write caching for the drive. Windows tells me this means it is safe to just yank the ...

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 ...

Is it possible to disable write-behind caching/delayed writes in Windows 2000 for removable drives?<P>Windows 9x had this option (System Properties > Performance > File System > Removable Disk).<P>I ...