What Are Disk Speed Test Apps? Disk speed test apps help measure the overall speed and performance of a hard drive or solid-state drive (SSD) (internal or external) connected to a computer system.

One of the first big challenges neophyte sysadmins and data hoarding enthusiasts face is how to store more than a single disk worth of data. The short—and traditional—answer here is RAID (a Redundant ...

Poor storage disk performance and slow disk speeds are some of the most common reasons your computer might feel sluggish. If ...

I've been trying to get an accurate figure of hard disk performance between two systems. The data from different tests varied to wildly. For instance, hdparm -tT reported a read test of 185MB/s. I ...

Hard Disk Sentinel (HDSentinel) is a multi-OS SSD and HDD monitoring and analysis software. Its goal is to find, test, diagnose and repair hard disk drive problems, report and display SSD and HDD ...

Researchers have studied the operation of a small device fabricated in the write gap of a hard disk drive's write head to extend its recording density. The device is based on microwave-assisted ...

Over the last few years, much of the enterprise storage market has focused on flash technology, but the hard disk drive (HDD) format has plenty of life in it yet. It is true that flash storage offers ...

A recent update to Azure Managed Disks offers improved storage throughput and IOPS, but testing shows Premium V2 still leads in consistency under heavy load. Suppose you are a technology professional ...

A hard drive, also known as a hard disk drive, is a storage device used on many computers. A hard drive consists of spinning platters that store digital information read by fast-moving read/write ...