Storage — digital storage, in this case — is where the information resides before being accessed.
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 …
The Synology DS218+ is a risk-free purchase. Partly because it’s relatively affordable, costing less than $300 (disk-less). The real reason, though, is that the server has a lot to offer. The DS218+ has a multitude of valuable applications, plus it can transcode 4K videos. If you use just a small …
The Crucial MX500 isn’t the fastest SSD I’ve worked with, but it has one thing to its advantage: the price. At just around 25 cents per gigabyte, it’s one of the most affordable new SSDs you can find. If you’ve been on the fence about the Samsung 860 EVO because …
You can easily find a cheap laptop for just a few hundred dollars. Chances are, though, the machine is slow, taking longer to boot up than it took to deliver it to you. OK, I exaggerated, but seriously, these budget laptops are a pain to use. The good news is …
