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Paul Lilly - Mon, Mar 04, 2024
A class-action lawsuit filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California alleges that Apple has created an "illegal monopoly" with its iCloud storage service. According to the lawsuit, "iCloud is no better (and often...
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Ryan Whitwam - Thu, Feb 29, 2024
Most forms of malware can only make the attacker money in a roundabout way. For example, selling stolen data or bundling infected systems into a rentable botnet. Ransomware is different, however, in that it can be a moneymaker all on its...
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Marco Chiappetta - Tue, Feb 20, 2024
Crucial T705: MSRP 2TB for $399, With Heatsink $439 The Crucial T705 NVMe SSD packs Micron's latest NAND flash memory, fresh firmware tweaks, and Phison's E26 controller, to offer class-leading performance. Ultra High Sequential Transfers...
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Ryan Whitwam - Fri, Feb 09, 2024
Every cell in your body contains a bundle of nucleic acid—deoxyribonucleic acid, to be specific. More commonly known as DNA, this molecule contains all the genetic information that makes you a functional biological organism. Scientists...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Feb 07, 2024
Here's a fun fact: Dodge's last Viper SRT packed up to 645 horsepower with a top speed of a exceeding 200 miles per hour. We're not sure if Patriot Memory's Viper PV553 solid state drive (SSD) is an homage to the muscle car that Dodge...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Jan 30, 2024
In a world flush with solid state drive (SSD) options, Corsair just added to the pile with the introduction of its MP600 Elite, an intriguing storage line that appears to strike a nice balance between price and performance (the specs are a...
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- Tue, Jan 23, 2024
Samsung officially announced its 990 EVO PCIe 4.0 and PCIe 5.0 SSDs today, after it was leaked earlier this month when it was accidentally listed on Samsung's own website. The 990 EVO is technically Samsung's first PCIe 5.0 SSD, though it...
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- Mon, Jan 22, 2024
While it's possible to overclock PC components like CPUs, GPUs, and even monitors now, one thing you've likely never seen overclocked is an SSD. However, tech enthusiast Gabriel Ferraz has recently detailed how he was able to overclock a...
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Zak Killian - Sat, Jan 20, 2024
We're now 2/3rds of the way through January (and over 5% through 2024 already), so the holidays are well and truly over, and everyone's back to work. That doesn't mean that there are no more tech deals to be had, though! Indeed, if you're...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Jan 19, 2024
We're starting to sound like a broken record (or a buffering stream, if you're not old enough to remember vinyl), but there are factors at play that could drive up system memory and solid state drive (SSD) prices throughout the course of...
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Alan Velasco - Wed, Jan 17, 2024
Seagate is announcing the launch of its Mozaic 3+ hard drive platform, allowing it to offer customers hard drives with a staggering 30TB+ of capacity. These new hard drives use the company’s Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR)...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Jan 05, 2024
TeamGroup is launching its fastest solid state drive (SSD) yet and, according to the rated specifications, it will come close to saturating the PCI Express 5.0 x4 bus. To be more specific, TeamGroup's newly unveiled T-Force GE Pro SSD...
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Zak Killian - Thu, Jan 04, 2024
Kioxia is the company formerly known as Toshiba Memory Solutions, the inventors of NAND flash memory. Along with a myriad of other major tech companies, Kioxia is et to showcase its extensive portfolio of technologoes at CES 2024, more...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jan 01, 2024
It's a brand new year and, if you're a gamer, chances are high that your PC games library swelled in the waning moments of 2023. That's because Steam, Epic, and other digital distribution platforms closed out the year with tantalizing...
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Nathan Ord - Sat, Dec 30, 2023
So, you’ve gotten a lot of emails over the years, taken many photos and videos, and dumped a bunch of content into Google Drive. Subsequently you've gotten a warning that your storage space is running out, and while that may be a ploy to...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Dec 11, 2023
You didn't really think that the barrage of tech deals would dry up after the Black Friday and Cyber Monday festivities, did you? That has not been the case in a long while, as retailers celebrate an entire season of savings. That includes...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Nov 21, 2023
TeamGroup's growing family of high-speed solid state drives (SSDs) just got a bit bigger today with the launch of four new models, including the T-Force G70 Pro, T-Force G70, T-Force G50 Pro, and T-Force G50. All four drive families share...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Nov 21, 2023
Have you seen how much space some AAA games take up these days? There are several that approach and even exceed 100GB install sizes (Starfield takes up around 140GB), and that's before any DLC and/or mods—ARK: Survival Evolved, for...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Nov 15, 2023
The mechanical hard disk drive (HDD) isn't dead even as solid state drives (SSDs) steal the limelight. That's because pricing for bulk storage still favors HDDs. But while the storage medium is far from dead, HDDs do give up the ghost...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Nov 15, 2023
We're still waiting for solid state drives (SSDs) built that take advantage of the PCI Express 5.0 bus to bombard the market, but so far there have been just a small handful of releases. They are coming, though. One of the challenges they...
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Zak Killian - Thu, Nov 02, 2023
If you bought a Steam Deck with a 256GB or 512GB SSD inside, you're probably not aware of an issue that affects people with the cheaper 64GB model. You see, games on SteamOS download pre-compiled shader libraries as well as additional data...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Oct 31, 2023
In a surprise move, Western Digital is splitting its hard disk drive (HDD) and flash memory storage businesses into separate companies, effectively spinning off its solid state drive (SSD) division. The move comes around the eight-year...
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