There are a variety of maintenance routines that people can run in OS X, including the disk verification and permissions repair that come with the system, along with scripts such as cache cleaners ...

Going through the BIOS menu afterward I noticed that the default for Advanced Options > Drive Write Cache is "Disabled". Does this mean that all the drivex in the box (which are attached to the ...

Is ReadyBoost still an effective tool in Windows 10? Your email has been sent ReadyBoost has been around since the days of Windows Vista. Here's a look at how it works, how to take advantage of it, ...

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Probably a badly worded title, but we'll see where this goes...<BR><BR>I have a reasonably large MySQL database (8GB MyISAM data, 1.2GB indexes) that holds statistical data. The data is inserted on a ...

Have you found that you are running low on hard disk space? In this article we will show you how to increase the cache of your hard disk and improve the performance of your PC. A cache is a temporary ...

When you play a song on Spotify, it uses some of your hard drive space to cache that file for faster playing later. Here's how to clear that cache if you need some extra disk space. By default, ...

Private browsing, a.k.a. incognito mode, is useful for more than just porn. It can protect you against sites (including online banks, health sites, and insurance companies) that are storing your ...

Moving the head takes a lot longer than waiting for the sector to come around. So low seek times (the time to move the head) are critical to good disk performance. Access time (time to find a sector) ...