A hard drive holds the data of your daily life – from personal files to games and important documents, and sometimes the operating system itself. That fact in mind, we can consider it as one of the critical components of a PC. So, in any case, if it fails, the consequences can be dangerous, especially […]
Solid State Drives (SSDs) have witnessed a significant improvement in terms of speed, efficiency, and reliability over the past few years. After the arrival of Gen 5.0, the storage devices have taken a huge leap with record-breaking read/write speeds that can reach up to 12000 MB/s and even more. Since the interface used in these
An NVMe port or slot uses the M.2 form factor and allows the NVMe drives to connect to the system’s PCIe lanes. It is a compact form factor derived from the mSATA form factor, which is almost obsolete these days. The NVMe slot adheres to the M.2 form factor that determines its physical structure and
So, I was procrastinating on a deadline the other day, scrolling through some news, when I stumbled on a story that made me spill my tea. Some poor soul at a big organization lost a plain, unencrypted USB drive packed with sensitive data, and it cost them a fortune in fines. I mean, ouch. It’s
Western Digital recently merged with Sandisk, and the WD Dashboard is now the Sandisk Dashboard. The upcoming WD SSDs will come under the brand name of SanDisk. All the WD Shop pages have been moved to the Sandisk Shop pages. But if you want to upgrade your existing WD SSD or the new SanDisk SSD,
SSDs use NAND flash memory for data storage. Each cell can hold from one to four bits of data. The form of data inside the NAND flash is binary, which means just 0s and 1s. On the very basic level, it is just high and low levels of electric charge inside the cells. As the
