Delivering efficient and optimised storage performance for virtual environments can be difficult to achieve because so many components in the infrastructure stack must interact. But optimum storage ...

Paul Schnackenburg examines the current storage options for Azure IaaS VMs, as well as the new offering, Ultra SSD, released in preview at Ignite 2018. Storage in public clouds has always been an ...

Web site Speed.io is a web-based speed-testing tool for measuring your upload and download bandwidth. Speed tests like this aren't really new—for example, I've always been partial to Speakeasy's Speed ...

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I just ordered a new tablet to replace my four year old one that started eating drives. I did not order a SSD since they are usually extremely overpriced from the factory. I do have some questions ...

IOPS, latency and throughput/bandwidth are all interconnected. IOPS = (Throughput / Block Size) * 1024 Throughput in MBps = (IOPS * Block Size) / 1024 I understand how to convert IOPS to throughput ...

Some applications require higher IOPS, throughput, or capacity than offered by a single io2 volume. To address the needed performance, customers often stripe multiple io2 volumes together. However, ...

If there's one downside to following the rapid progression of technology, it's that we're often stuck waiting for the next best thing to arrive. That couldn't be any more true than it is with memory ...