OCZ RevoDrive 350 480GB PCIe SSD OCmodshopJul 5, 2014September 13, 20140 The OCZ RevoDrive 350 is an internal SSD that connects directly to your PC's PCI Express bus. Since it doesn't have the limitations of SATA, Read more
Boost USB Drive Performance in Windows Alan McCloskeyApr 1, 2008August 3, 20142 Another one of our articles shows you how to speed up SATA hard drive performance in Windows Vista by enabling advanced write caching. A similar Read more
Speed up SATA Drives in Windows Alan McCloskeyMar 25, 2008June 26, 20147 We showed you in a previous tip how to increase performance with USB drives in Vista by enabling write caching. By default this option isn’t turned on Read more
64-bit and Superfetch Alan McCloskeyMar 25, 2008November 28, 20140 Yes, both the processor and OS must be 64-bit to enable more than 4GB of RAM. Pretty much any processor made within the past Read more
Fix Windows’ Wasteful Shadow Copy (VSS) Alan McCloskeyMar 17, 2008June 26, 20143 As storage has gotten more expansive, Microsoft has gotten very good at unnecessarily using up this extra space. One of the biggest storage hogs is Read more
Tweak Windows Auto-Tuning Network Alan McCloskeyMar 5, 2008August 2, 20140 Once again, Microsoft thinks it can solve all of your problems by being smarter than you are. Unfortunately, some of the “automatic tuning” features of Vista Read more
Some NASes are slow Alan McCloskeyFeb 17, 2008November 28, 20140 After doing more research, it appears that the NAS IS actually that slow in RAID 5. It has a “fast” 500Mhz processor running Linux, but Read more
Speed up Internet Explorer Alan McCloskeyJan 21, 2008June 26, 20142 According to industry standards, your web browser is only allowed to download two files at a time from any server. By default, both Firefox and Read more
Just Say No To SuperFetch Alan McCloskeyJan 11, 2008August 2, 201416 If you’re using Windows Vista, then you’ve probably noticed the new memory requirements. In Windows XP you could get away with 1GB of memory, with 2GB Read more
Latency Requirements John-ErikNov 10, 2007November 28, 20140 No, data discs have different latency requirements from actual DVDs. A stream from DVD or WMV-HD DVD is a sequential stream, but on DivX and Read more