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4 free and powerful tools for partitioning your drives

Despite virtualization becoming more relevant and multiple drives (including external) installed on your PC, there are still good reasons to use multiple partitions on Windows PCs. Regarding Windows, ...
Digital Trends

World’s first 200TB SSD is nearly here, but you can’t use it

The era of 200TB solid-state drives (SSD) appears to be on the horizon, with a successor to the world’s largest SSD confirmed to be in development. Nimbus Data’s 100TB ExaDrive immediately became the ...
PC World

Hard drive, SSD, or USB flash drive: Which portable storage is right for you?

Data is omnipresent. It’s stored on different devices — traditionally on a desktop PC, but now perhaps even more importantly on a mobile device such as a smartphone or tablet. Even though data and ...
Macworld

How to move your Mac’s Photos library to an SSD for better performance

Photos for the Mac is a storage hog. It likes to read and write from its storage with abandon, no matter how much memory you have. Because a Photos library can become quite large—mine apparently ...
Ars Technica

Five years of data show that SSDs are more reliable than HDDs over the long haul

Backup and cloud storage company Backblaze has published data comparing the long-term reliability of solid-state storage drives and traditional spinning hard drives in its data center. Based on data ...
HotHardware

Micron's New 2550 NVMe Drive Is The First Client SSD To Surpass 200-Layer NAND

Micron announced that it is shipping the world’s first client SSD using NAND flash with over 200 layers. The Micron 2550 NVMe SSD uses 232-layer TLC NAND, which the company says benefits consumers ...