It's an exciting time in the PC hardware space. While we've been spending our time testing DDR5 memory and 12th-gen Intel processors, we're also on the cusp of some interesting storage innovations.

DirectStorage is a technology that Microsoft has developed for the Xbox Series S and Xbox Series X. The main goal of this technology is to reduce game loading times as much as possible. Microsoft has ...

Microsoft has announced this it’s bringing its DirectStorage API to Windows PCs. The DirectX API was originally designed alongside the Xbox Series X Velocity Architecture, to hugely speed up loading ...

TL;DR: Microsoft's DirectStorage technology accelerates game loading by allowing the GPU to handle file access and decompression, designed for NVMe SSDs with PCIe Gen4 speeds. Despite limited game ...