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So yeah, it's happening way sooner than expecting: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Samsung-to-halt-SATA-SSD-production-leaker-warns-of-up-to-18-months-of-SSD-price-pressure-worse-than-Micron-ending-consumer-RAM.1184896.0.html I know, Moore Law is Dead is not trusted, but seeing the current...

good evening dear friends :) I was looking at Amazon and some electronic distributors for a long term cold storage device. Well - belive me: traditionally I've always gone with HDD but since SSD prices have dropped significantly, So i'm wondering if it is worth going for a SSD now...

Hello, I've typically bought samsung in the past but am not sure if the firmware fix is a work around or a real fix for some of the newer models? For all I know they are all made by the same company and have the same issue or there is a better brand to get.

dear friends, good day,:) well its a storage thing: the question i have is: should I set up a NAS or should i to the cheap way: just add hard drives to a desktop to increase my storage? I want to expand my storage. Previously I had just 400 or so GB off my hard drive for example for...

I wanted to have an external drive where I can store mostly turn based strategy games like XCOM or Civilization type games and play on surface pro 9. I didn't want to undergo the hassle of changing the SSD in the SP9. Is there a thumb drive that might be able to do this or do I have to go for a...

The regular Android steps doesn't work? "Settings>Apps>APP>Storage>Change/Move to Memory Card" doesn't show. https://www.tomsguide.com/us/move-android-apps-to-sd-card,news-21279.html...

I am in the process of making a list on a computer build and I am a novice. I am not building a gaming computer but a computer to edit video. I have read that I want SSD NVMe M2 drive with a minimum of 1500 mbs write speed. I have 2 questions should I have 2 SSD cards 1 for OS and 1 for...

Hey everyone. So I built my wife a computer last month, and I had used the HP EX950 SSD in it. However, it appeared to develop write errors early on & attempts to cool it off with heatsinks & fans didn't seem to prevent that. I even tried doing the firmware fix that's been floating around. I've...

I'm trying to build my own NAS for video editing. I won't be working with 4k footage - 2k at the most. The NAS will primarily be for archive but I want to have the option to edit off of it, if needed. I'm fairly certain that this will do the job but my biggest concern is the "networking" part...

I have an android smartphone with USB 3.1 v2 (1GB/s). Don't have laptop or PC. What is the most ideal external storage and most suitable for storing multimedia files from android smartphone (USB 3.1 v2) ?

so i got a new Samsung Evo 860 SSD replaced my primary laptop storage. works great. fast boot. as i get used to it, i came along discussions on the dos and donts of using ssd storage and one of them is avoid too much changes like writing on the ssd. as a result, i have relocated Windows' temp...

We have a massive NAS competition underway, and yes, we're talking terabytes. Up for grabs is the QNAP TS-932X NAS enclosure, Seagate IronWolf PRO 16TB HDD, and the IronWolf 110 SSD. Run with the biggest and the fastest. Seagate IronWolf drives provide 28% more capacity and up to 25% more speed...

Intel Optane AMA with the Intel Optane Team AnandTech is proud to announce the upcoming guest in our featured Community Series -- ASK ME ANYTHING. On Wednesday, September 26th through Thursday, September 27th the Intel Optane Team will join us in a live AMA on the AnandTech Memory and Storage...

My Drobo DDR3-A decided it didn't want to work anymore and now I'm without my 8TB volume of priceless memes, YouTube rips, backup archives, photos, and other miscellaneous nonsense I like to use with my HTPC. The hard drives themselves are fine but I don't have a working external enclosure. I...

Notebook vendors boosting SSD adoption for new models I imagine this is the 660p drive that appeared in Intel documents awhile back From Tomshardware Article And remember, Tomshardware said that a source told them to expect 512GB QLC SSDs for around $100 Looking forward to see how QLC...

(note: i am running Windows 8.1 Pro on a Lenovo Thinkpad W540) several days ago i received a blue screen of death and my computer restarted. upon restart my computer acted like a new system (received the “let’s get you started” message, etc.), and though my data and programs were all intact my...

My grocery store has bins of black and green tea mix where you can take as much as you want and put it in a plastic bag. 'Tis usually the cheapest way to buy loose tea and you can get exactly however much you want. How would you store this? Would you put it into a tin, leave it in the bag? Tie...

After hours of videos, guides, and forums, I am still confused about how pcie lanes from CPU's and mobos work so I was hoping someone can shed some more light for me. I currently have an i7 4790k which claims to have a max number of 16 lanes via up to 1x16, 2x8, 1x8+2x4. However due to this...

Had my larger hard drive crash on me over the weekend; I can no longer initialize the disk in Windows. The drive is no longer detected outside of specialized software and I get a general CRC error. I think the drive is toast, and I already have a replacement on the way, but what would be the...

Hello everyone! I have three hard drives in my PC: C:\ - My OS and programms are on this drives D:\ - My data is stored on this drives G:\ - My games are on this drive I regulary make Images/Backups of my PC for the case that it goes unstable or I want to try out stuff. So recently I wanted to...