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

When you create a Google account, Google gives you 15GB of free cloud storage to store your files (videos, pictures, documents, etc) across all of its platforms including Gmail, Google Photos, and Google Drive where you store files from Google Docs, Forms, Slides, Excel, etc.... 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

Buying an SD Card is one of those things which is either a hit or miss. With a lot of counterfeit products on the market and a lot of technical buzzwords slapped on products, it's never easy. But it doesn't have to be that way.... Read More

The incumbent 970 EVO SSD from Samsung has always held a dominant position as the fastest budget NVMe SSD. That position was further cemented with the introduction of the 970 EVO Plus which was announced in April of 2019. Samsung claims that the newer Plus... 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