Using NVMe to Modernize Servers, with Big ROI

Posted on: April 29, 2015

Principled Technologies has done a deep analysis of the Lenovo ThinkServer RD650 with NVM Express SSDs. When the server is equipped with four 1.6TB NVM…

How to Benchmark SSDs with FIO Visualizer

Posted on: April 22, 2015

There are two proven software tools commonly used for IO benchmarks – Iometer (http://www.iometer.org/) for Windows and FIO (http://freecode.com/projects/fio) for Linux OS.  What…

NVMe Basic Management Command

Posted on: March 2, 2015

The NVM Express Management Interface (NVMe-MI) Workgroup has released a technical note that describes an out-of-band management command for NVMe devices that utilizes an SMBus…

ChromeOS adds boot support for NVM Express

Posted on: February 24, 2015

 ChromeOS devices are known for their fast boot support through a combination of an open source coreboot bootloader and its associated payload…