Storage

Before we get to what a Cloud DVR is, let me take you back to about two decades ago. The early 2000s was a time when every trip to the restroom was planned for during commercial breaks of your favorite TV show. I recall watching... Read More

Hard drive defragmentation is more like routine maintenance of any machine, such as a car, which has to be done periodically. In this context, it can be quickly put off since it can be inconvenient and unexciting. With machines, most people understand the need for... 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

Solid state drives have been around for a while, but just in the last few years, they have become more affordable and offered much more storage. The popularity of SSDs is increasing as they upstage their hard disk drive (HDD) counterparts. While their popularity grows,... 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

Generally, computers standards tend to get very regular revisions. How many DDR, PCI Express, or USB versions have we been through? Many, right? Now think of how many NVMe versions we have. We only have had one major NVMe Version. But now in-comes the NVMe... Read More

Nowdays smartphones come with standard internal ROM which is about 32GB, 64GB for mid-range to 128GB and 256GB for high-end phones. But when you start using the phone and install all your favorite apps, download music offline, save Youtube videos, take images and shot videos... Read More

On 19th May 2020, the SD Association released a new SD standard called SD Express 8.0. This new specification promises data transfer speeds of up to 4 GB/s by using two PCIe lanes at 2 GB/s each. The SD Express 8.0 spec uses NVMe technology... Read More

When purchasing hard drives, most people are guilty of just considering the drive's storage capacity as a sole specification. Only a few enquire about the read and write speeds, platter rotation speeds, among many other important specifications. Many buyers are, however, oblivious of a specification... Read More