October 3, 2022 Hard Drives offer great inexpensive storage with lots of capacity. While they don’t hold a candle to SSD’s when it comes to performance, you can’t beat the $/TB storage capacity of a hard drive, especially when it comes to 2TB or larger. That being said, most consumer level hard drives utilize a […]
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Posted 25 Sep 2022 12:45AM ET I previously reviewed the 2TB and 128GB Leven 2.5″ SSD’s (without any DRAM cache – see here: https://htwingnut.com/2022/03/06/review-leven-2tb-2-5-sata-ssd/) and apparently they now offer SSD’s with DRAM cache. I only saw drives up to 512GB, however, but did pick up a 256GB drive to review. They call it JS-600 Pro
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2022 September 10 What is the best media for long term storage is a question that I read frequently from online forums. First and foremost, as far as I’m aware there is no real “set it and forget it” long term storage. In this digital age, data needs to be validated regularly and cycled to
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If you have ever just wanted to store a bunch of files on your computer, only to have your hard drive chock full that you can’t store any more, and then realize that if you buy another hard drive you have to manipulate your data manually between them, then take a look at Stablebit Drivepool.
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Introduction SSD’s have come down in price over the last decade substantially. So much so that they have pretty much displaced laptop hard drives as the de facto storage device. The 2.5″ 7mm thick form factor limited hard drive capacities to 2TB, and while newer hard drive technology could likely improve that capacity, the cost
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You may have purchased a shiny new fat capacity hard drive to store all your Linux ISO’s, cat videos, and the vast multitude of cheesy and just plain bad 20th century sci-fi films. You buy a 10TB drive thinking you can finally combine all your CD’s, DVD’s, Blu-Ray’s, thumb drives, old USB hard drives into
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