Storage — digital storage, in this case — is where the information resides before being accessed.
If you’re looking for a replacement solid-state drive (SSD) for your budget computer, here’s my recommendation: The Crucial BX500. This drive takes SSD affordability to a new level. You can get the newly-released maximum capacity of 960GB for just $130, or about 13 cents per gigabyte. There are also 480GB, …
I didn’t expect much from the Dell Inspiron i5575-A217SLV-PUS notebook. I bought it because it was relatively cheap, and I just needed a simple machine for testing. But it turned out to be such a satisfying buy after I upgraded to a solid-state drive (SSD). So here’s the deal: If …
The name says it all. The new Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe solid-state drive (SSD), released today, is indeed what its older brother—the 970 EVO—is, plus a bit more. It has enough more for Samsung to decide to use it in the place of the 970 EVO going forward. The …
It’s quite hard to make portable storage devices interesting these days, but WD has managed to do just that at CES 2019 with four new products, each unique in its own right. These include the SanDisk Extreme PRO Portable SSD, the My Passport Go, the SanDisk Flashback, and the SanDisk 4TB USB-C Prototype. …
In case you don’t know, using your Android’s Photos app (or Google Photos for iOS), you can automatically save an unlimited amount of photos and videos on Google cloud for free, making it easy to access and share them. Just sign in Google Photos using any platform, and all is …
The new Samsung SSD 860 QVO solid-state drive (SSD), announced today, is Samsung’s most affordable SSD yet. Indeed, the new drive is available in 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB with the suggested retail price of $150, $300, and $600, respectively, or 15 cents per gigabyte. That’s less than half the 860 …
An SSD upgrade is quite simple. All you have to do is make a clone of an existing drive to a solid-state drive. Then physically swap the former out for the latter. The process will help the computer perform much faster—if it initially uses a hard drive as its primary …
