LSI has confirmed that it is finally allowing its solid-state controller customers to disable the extra over-provisioning normally associated with its SandForce parts in order to boost storage ...

Having the puzzle fifteen-sixteenths full makes for challenging and entertaining gameplay, but it’s certainly not the kind of performance limitation you want in your solid state drive (SSD). Imagine ...

When an SSD is developed it will consist of standard memory chips. They come in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB capacities. However, many Sandforce powered drives up until now typically use some of that storage ...

Korean researchers discovered a vulnerability in solid-state drives that enables malware to infect an SSD's empty over-provisioning partition directly. This enables the malware to be practically ...

Solid-state drives contain more NAND than is required to meet the listed capacity on the box. The reasoning for this is that the controller requires some of it for garbage collection and to replace ...

With its debut five years ago, thin provisioning technology promised to take the sting out of one of the perennial problems of enterprise storage. In most organisations, even today, excessive amounts ...

The long-term benefits of cloud computing and software-defined everything are pretty well known: improved infrastructure flexibility, dynamic configuration and ultimately the complete virtualization ...

I've been doing some research on manual over-provisioning of SSD's and the attendant performance increases and reductions in write amplification that the procedure can provide, and was wondering if ...

Businesses are over-provisioning and paying for cloud services they don't need because it's seen as a necessary cover when deploying a cloud-based service. That's according to research by cloud ...