Storage — digital storage, in this case — is where the information resides before being accessed.
The Toshiba RC100 is tiny, slightly larger than an SD card, and affordable, costing just around 30 cents per gigabyte. In fact, with it, you now can get an NVMe SSD for less than the cost of a SATA SSD. And while you won’t get the best NVMe speed, the new …
The Samsung 970 PRO, as intended, is superior to the more affordable Samsung 970 EVO. It’s faster and has double the endurance—it’ll last much longer. But it’s also, in some ways, inferior. For example, it caps at 1TB, half of the Evo drive. And most importantly, at close to $.50 per …
There have been plenty of backup apps on a Synology NAS server. Today, the NAS maker released two more: Active Backup for Office 365 and Active Backup for Business. Both are for business users or those using high-end servers like the DS1618+. Active Backup for Office 365: Les storage required, super-fast …
At slightly less than 40 cents per Gigabyte, the Samsung 970 EVO is currently cheaper than its older brother, the 960 EVO that came out two years ago. It’s arguably the best “budget” NVMe solid-state drive (SSD) you can get, even though it’s not the most affordable on the market. …
The Synology DS1618+ is a massive upgrade to the dual-bay DS218+ I reviewed a while back. It’s more than double the width in physical size, has many more options in redundancy and data safety, and was faster in my tests. However, sharing the same DiskStation Manager (DSM) operating system, both …
Synology recently released its 6-bay DS1618+ NAS server, capable of delivering a massive amount of storage space. Behold the server’s design and some of its features in the photos below. For more, check out its full review. Synology DS1618+ photos: Front Synology DS1618+photos: Back The PCIe slot can host one …
If you’re into continuous video recording, you’ll love this new microSD card Samsung released today, the Samsung PRO Endurance. Like all solid-state storage devices, SD cards have limited program/erase cycles, known as endurance, the amount of data you can write to one before it becomes unreliable. As the name suggests, the …
Samsung today announced its latest non-volatile memory express solid-state drives (SSDs), the 970 SSD NVMe Series, including the 970 EVO and 970 PRO. These are super-fast internal drives, not to be lumped together with the recently released 860 EVO and 860 PRO SATA drives. Indeed, the new 970 series belongs to the next-gen …
Portable drives—especially those housing a regular hard drive on the inside—need to be handled with care. It’s just common sense, but if you find that hard, the Silicon Power Armor A75 is for you. This portable drive is designed to keep data safe from mishaps, but it still manages to …
Time Machine Backup is a Mac computer’s excellent built-in backup tool, similar to File History in Windows. Once set up, it runs by itself in the background and keeps many versions of your data. As a result, you get the chance to undo not only accidental file deletions but also …
