With each new generation of motherboards, one thing has become clear: The M.2 form factor is here to stay. And for people who are looking to achieve drive speeds that you can’t get with the comparably slow SATA connections, that’s excellent news. Most ordinary consumers aren’t yet in need of the kind of speeds you …
When you’ve got a powerful computer, it’s all-but-guaranteed that your slowest component will be your hard drive. And depending on the task in question, your computer may be only as fast as its slowest component. The leap from HHD to SSD is monumental. It’s the difference between your computer booting-up in 15 seconds or 90 …
While money may make the world go around, as the saying goes, these days data comes in a close second. The amount of digital data created by society is simply staggering. In 2008, YouTube users uploaded 48 hours of video content every minute of the day. If that seems like a lot, but 2017 that …
In the early 2000’s, computer enthusiasts could flex their hardware muscles with a RAM drive. All you’d have to do is build a system with a ton of volatile memory (this was expensive!) and allocate a portion of it to storage. The shockingly fast access times made it feel like our data was being transferred …
If you’re looking for external storage, you’ve got a couple choices to make. You can go for a USB flash drive. They tend to be very inexpensive, reliable, and are compatible with almost every computer made in the last 20 years. However, they are also fairly low capacity and don’t tend to be particularly fast. …