So, there are three main types of hard drives when it comes to storage solutions: conventional spinning hard disk drives, nimble solid-state drives, and something called Serial Advanced Technology Attachment, or SATA for short. And since our blog is replete with content disclosing the features and differences between solid-state devices and good ol’ HDDs, this […]
Unlike fragile portable storage devices such as external hard drives — for which even a slight jolt may be enough to join the whisperers — SD cards are normally manufactured to be resistant to physical damage, meaning that your memory card has a better chance of surviving extreme conditions like dust, water, shocks, and even […]
You don’t need to be well versed in the latest technological discoveries or have a thorough understanding of all the intricacies of your computer’s design — a superficial knowledge of each of the technologies will be enough to grasp why solid-state drives are increasingly bypassing traditional HDDs in popularity. Unlike conventional hard disk drives, which […]
“Since I turned on my computer this morning, the Windows detected a hard disk problem error continues to appear on the screen and prompts me to start the backup process. How do I solve the issue?” — while сomputer forums are full of messages like this, the problem itself has been bothering many Windows users […]
When Benjamin Franklin said, “In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes,” he actually should’ve added hard drive crashes and running out of disk space. Luckily, while we’re stuck with death and taxes, there is a way to fix the storage problem. Networked storage has moved from enterprise to […]
There are plenty of articles on the Internet telling about the main characteristics of certain storage systems. But what about those users who don’t follow the technical innovations, or, say, those who simply don’t have time to understand many of the specifications and find out how they will affect the performance or reliability of the […]
Mobile phones these days are the bedrock upon which we build our digital lives. With at least half of the world’s population using smart devices and with over half of the world’s web traffic coming from mobile phones, the number of users storing their personal data on smartphones today exceeds 50 percent — so it […]
How much data do we produce? According to the IDC’s report on the ever-growing datasphere, which was released in not-so-far 2018, the total size of the world’s collected data is expected to hit the daunting 175 zettabytes by 2025 — for a compounded annual growth rate of 61 percent. But with surging storage needs across […]
From the photographs being stored on our personal computers, documents, files, and various archives to business assets and huge databases of megacorporations — the total amount of data created each day reaches 2.5 quintillion bytes. Along with this, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there are now more people than ever before working from home, which […]
