Storage

You may have been wondering why your 500GB hard drive is showing as 460GB on Windows. Where does the remaining 40GB disappear to? Imagine buying a 2TB hard drive and finding out you can only use 1.8TB! Why are you losing an entire 200GB without... Read More

Advertised SSD storage capacity is never really what you get and it has a thing or two to do with a vital process known as Over-provisioning. Over-provisioning an SSD is the allocation of extra storage capacity to alleviate NAND flash memory wear over time by... Read More

Chromebooks have provision for plugging in external storage such as flash disks and microSD cards. Normally, the first thing you do when you plug in external storage to your laptop is format it. Formatting a flash disk, portable drive or memory card makes it usable... Read More

If you own a camera you obviously need some sort of storage to save your photos or videos. To most buyers, when it comes to choosing camera storage, you can't go wrong with "more is better". Or is it? The CompactFlash Association (CFA) made available... Read More

Google Drive is a popular, and one of the most used cloud storage services we have around. And one of the very few that offers a free service (for the first 15GB of storage) on the market. Google Drive is a powerful and easy to use... Read More

A few years ago, the media was awash with stories of how SSD shelf-life was only a fraction of the die hard HDDs. Now that we know that it was all bollocks, I guess it's about time we invested in some beefy SSD to give... Read More

Normally when I try to copy or move files, especially large files from my computer to a flash disk or vice versa, the transfer process normally moves smoothly up to 99%. At 99%, it either fails or gets stuck for a few moments before finishing.... Read More

Samsung's EVO SSD series is very popular in some countries to the point of outselling competitors by double margins. Today we focus on the company's 860 EVO SATA SSD. How have they improved on the already brilliant preceding 850 EVO? Samsung seems to be clinging... Read More

Today, we will enlighten you about the different SD card standards that exist in the market. The Secure Digital (SD) card was first launched back in 1999. At the moment, SD cards come in various form factors, capacity types, speed classes, bus interfaces, etc. Let's... Read More