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hard drives
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March 15, 2021
When buying a new computer or upgrading your current PC, you’ll notice a growing number of storage options available. And it’s not just that you can choose from different-sized hard drives, either. With solid-state drives, hard disk drives, and hybrid options on the table, it’s tough to know what to choose these days.
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March 15, 2021When buying a new computer or upgrading your current PC, you’ll notice a growing number of storage options available. And it’s not just that you can choose from different-sized hard drives, either. With solid-state drives, hard disk drives, and hybrid options on the table, it’s tough to know what to choose these days. In our hard drive buying guide, we’ll explore the storage formats available for consumer PCs, with an emphasis on which you may prefer based on your usage. We’ll also outline the typical costs and associated features, and explain how you can manage your storage system.
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December 26, 2019
So much of our everyday lives are centered around the computer. We use computers to store our photos and videos, to get work done, and to communicate with our friends via the internet. None of that would be possible without the hard drive. The hard drive is the component that stores all the data on your computer, from files to software. It’s the central storage bank for our digital lives.
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December 26, 2019So much of our everyday lives are centered around the computer. We use computers to store our photos and videos, to get work done, and to communicate with our friends via the internet. None of that would be possible without the hard drive. The hard drive is the component that stores all the data on your computer, from files to software. It’s the central storage bank for our digital lives. Unfortunately, hard drives don’t have an unlimited amount of space. While 500GB storage is more than enough for most users, you might run out of free space if you have lots of large files like movies, PC games, and editing files. Thankfully, you can always use an external hard drive to store your computer data.
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September 18, 2019
Computer manufacturers are constantly trying to boost the amount of data that you can store on your desktop PC and laptop, and they’re also trying to boost the speeds at which you can write and retrieve data. That’s led to a relatively new kind of storage technology: the solid-state hybrid drive. Sounds like something you’d find on a spaceship, right?
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September 18, 2019Computer manufacturers are constantly trying to boost the amount of data that you can store on your desktop PC and laptop, and they’re also trying to boost the speeds at which you can write and retrieve data. That’s led to a relatively new kind of storage technology: the solid-state hybrid drive. Sounds like something you’d find on a spaceship, right?
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July 30, 2019
For one reason or another, you’ve decided that you’re going to delete an app or two from your Windows 10 PC. That shouldn’t be too difficult, right? All you’ve got to do is… delete them.
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July 30, 2019For one reason or another, you’ve decided that you’re going to delete an app or two from your Windows 10 PC. That shouldn’t be too difficult, right? All you’ve got to do is… delete them. Actually, one of the biggest questions that PC users ask is, “How do I delete apps from my PC?” Some apps are easy to delete, but others are much more difficult to get rid of, specifically the built-in apps that come included with your Windows 10 operating system.
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April 21, 2019
SAS and SATA are two technologies that computers use to transfer data from the motherboard to storage, and vice versa. Both technologies do roughly the same thing, but each is built with different hardware.
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April 21, 2019SAS and SATA are two technologies that computers use to transfer data from the motherboard to storage, and vice versa. Both technologies do roughly the same thing, but each is built with different hardware. Needless to say, a modern computer is a very complicated piece of machinery. You could study computer architecture for years and still have a lot to learn. So let’s describe a computer in the most simplistic terms possible.