Western Digital announces higher density 3D NAND memory
More bits and more layers coming soon to a SSD near you
Corsair Neutron NX500 400GB Review
The Neutron Series NX500 is Corsair's latest entry into the high performance SSD arena, comes in 400GB or 800GB capacities, both using the half-height half-length form factor. So how does it fare?
Transfer Steam Games to an SSD without Redownloading
Although solid state drives have steadily increased in capacity, so too have the size of game installs. Today's triple-A titles commonly occupy upwards of 20GB with many approaching or exceeding 60GB, especially after accounting for downloadable content. Ironically, it's often these large releases that benefit the most from the improved load times.
A TSer asks: Do I really need an SSD?
TSer Cycloid Torus is wondering how much he would benefit from buying an SSD. He doesn't need a speedy boot-up, but his current drive does load Fallout 4 levels painfully slow, raising the suspicion that it might be time to upgrade. Can he expect a performance boost anywhere else? Maybe it's best to go hybrid?
A TSer asks: Backup software to selectively store/sync portions of a drive?
Long-time TS forum moderator SNGX is looking for software that can incrementally or manually back up certain directories (movies, TV, music, photos) to specific locations (essentially syncing say I:\Movies to F:\Movies etc.). The goal is syncing files that are scattered across several drives to a single one. Allway Sync n Go has been suggested -- do you have any experience with that?
Google Backup and Sync launches this month
Point to any folder on your computer to have Drive back it up automatically
Apple drops 2TB iCloud storage price to $9.99, adds family sharing for 200GB and 2TB plans
Apple brings iCloud costs down for families buying storage subscriptions for members individually
The Best Storage: SSD, HDD, NAS & More
With dozens of hours testing storage devices under our belt in the last year alone, we have a pretty clear idea of what are the top devices you should buy right now, divided into six categories: Best performance SSD, best value SSD, best hard drives, best portable storage, best external storage device and best home/SMB NAS.
Intel's Optane memory may not be compatible with Kaby Lake Pentium or Celeron CPUs
Optane will only with with Kaby Lake i3, i5, and i7 processors
Intel's first consumer-grade Optane SSD will be super-speedy, and super-small
3D XPoint for the masses
Quickly convert between storage size units: KB, MB, GB, TB & 512 byte blocks
And, what's a Gibibyte?
QNAP TS-1635 Review: Quad-core ARM-based, 16-bay NAS
I've been trying to get my hands on QNAP's new quad-core, 16-bay TS-1635 ever since it was announced. Marketed as a cost-effective business NAS, it's definitely not cheap at a little over $1,000, but looking at the competition we find QNAP is well positioned where it counts.
Tesla's grid-connected Powerpack station comes online in California
System can power 2,500 homes for a full day
How would you delete a stubborn file that won't budge?
TSer Doctor Gallop has the opposite problem as Jskid: Windows refuses to recycle a downloaded video file (Chrome is closed and shouldn't be conflicting). Along with trying LockHunter, how might you handle an undeletable file?
Corsair Force MP500 480GB Review
A tough act to follow for the competition, even for the likes of Intel, Corsair announced the Force MP500 SSD shortly after the release of the dominating Samsung 960 Series. The Force MP500 is a high-speed NVMe SSD targeting power users available in a variety of capacities: 480GB, 240GB and even a piddly 120GBer.
Storage Real-World Performance: NVMe vs. SATA vs. HDD
To test and visualize how storage performance impacts the user experience in real world scenarios we recorded how quickly our Core i7-6700K test system completes various tasks using Samsung’s new 960 Evo 500GB SSD, then compared against the value-minded Crucial MX300 and the WD Red Pro 4TB mechanical hard drive.
ADATA SE730 External Rugged SSD Review
"An external SSD that can beat Samsung T3," read the title of an email that I recently received. Curious, of course, I investigated further to find that ADATA was behind the bold claim. Its purported 'T3 destroyer' was also the smallest external SSD you can buy with an IP68 rated shockproof, waterproof and dustproof enclosure.
