A few years ago I was tasked with making the Spec96 benchmark suite produce the fastest numbers possible using the Solaris Intel operating system and Compaq Proliant servers. We were given all the ...

Here is a free and open-source tool to write a raw disk image file to a removable device (say USB or flash drive). The tool is named Win32 Disk Imager. It can come in handy when you want to create a ...

To understand how and why SSDs are different from spinning discs, we need to discuss hard drives. A hard drive stores data on a series of spinning magnetic disks called platters. This diagram shows an ...