Apple charges considerable markups for memory and storage in its Macs. The policy should be revisited, Tae Kim writes Wednesday for Barron’s…
Tag: storage
1TB iPhone: Smartphone storage capacity zooms on increased demand
Ahead of the potential launch of a 1TB iPhone this year, storage capacity is quickly gaining traction as one of the more important criteria
Average iPhone game requires 76% more storage space since 2016
As developers continue to take advantage of iPhone storage space gains to launch bigger and better games while adding more content to their…
The best portable SSDs on the market today
The best portable SSDs let you pack a huge amount of storage in your daily bag, giving you a place where you can offload files from your computer…
The state of the art in solid state drives
The big price drops for flash memory in 2018 were the result of the 64-layer 3D NAND generation working out well for most of the major manufacturers…
Toshiba introduces new tiny NVMe SSD form factor
Today at Flash Memory Summit, Toshiba is debuting a new form factor for NVMe SSDs that is small enough to be a removable alternative to soldered-down BGA SSDs….
World’s first 1-terabyte microSD cards debut
The inexorable march of increasing storage capacities continues today with the announcement…
How to verify your backups are working properly
Every one of us has some type of data we can’t afford to lose…
Dropbox files for IPO
Co-founder and CEO Drew Houston is Dropbox’s biggest shareholder…
The ins and outs of Apple’s new file system, APFS
macOS High Sierra will upgrade your startup drive to APFS by default…
Intel’s push for petabyte SSDs requires new ‘ruler’ form factor
Intel is making the case to swap out old disk-based drives in data centers with SSDs…
CNET reviews LaCie 12big Thunderbolt 3: The ultimate storage system for professionals with up to 120TB of storage
The 12big is gigantic, both in terms of capacity and physical size…
Intel’s bold plan to reinvent computer memory
Intel just unleashed a new kind of computer memory it believes will fundamentally change…
AnandTech reviews Western Digital Black PCIe SSD (512GB)
The WD Black comes in only the two capacities that should be most popular: 256GB and 512GB…
The great, and well-hidden, storage tool in macOS Sierra
There’s a long-overdue storage feature in macOS Sierra that makes it easy to free up gigabytes of drive capacity…
Dropbox responds to Mac ‘security risk’ accusations
Dropbox has said it needs to do a ‘better job’ of communicating its OS X integration…
Seagate unveils massive 10TB hard drives for your desktop Mac
If you’re looking to greatly increase the storage capacity of your desktop computer…
Chelsio announces full support for Apple Mac’s OS X El Capitan
Chelsio Communications, Inc., a leading provider of high performance Ethernet adapters for storage networking, virtualized enterprise data centers, cloud service installations, and cluster computing environments, today confirmed its commitment to Apple…
No, your next MacBook’s storage won’t be 1,000x faster – Not even close
There is some speculation that MacBooks will jump to Optane SSDs in the next year…
SSD reliability in the real world: Google’s experience
MLC drives are as reliable as the more costly SLC “enteprise” drives…
Review: OWC’s 2TB Mercury Electra MAX SSD
OWC just started shipping a 2TB version of the Mercury Electra 6Gbps SSD they call The MAX…
Apple’s new Disk Utility nearly slain by the feature thief
The only people affected are the ones who use it…
6 Disk Utility changes in OS X El Capitan
Apple has given the Mac power user’s much-loved maintenance tool a big overhaul in El Capitan…
How can SD cards be faster than SSDs?
Recently the good folks at Datalight published results of testing they’d done…
Samsung unveils 2.5-inch 16TB SSD: The world’s largest storage drive
A server with 48 of these new SSDs, with a total storage capacity of 768 terabytes and performance rated at 2,000,000 IOPS
DLC might be the most interesting new feature in Apple’s OS X El Capitan
Up until now, if you were running an Xsan shared storage facility…
OS X pro tip: How to create a Fusion Drive for your Mac using any SSD and HDD
Create a DIY Fusion Drive of your own, using any SSD and HDD you wish…
10TB SSD in your Mac? New 3D NAND flash will triple capacity of SSDs
Standard consumer SSDs will increase up to an astounding 10TB of storage…
Apple security measures penalise OS X Yosemite users with third-party SSDs
Apple users are being warned that security measures introduced in OS X Yosemite…
Apple’s OS X Yosemite kills third-party SSD support
Apple has, without warning, removed support for some third-party SSDs…
SanDisk unveils new iXpand Flash Drive for iPhone and iPad
Users can store movies on the iXpand Flash Drive and instantly play them directly on their iPhone or iPad…
Cloud storage vs. external hard drives: Which really offers the best bang for your buck?
Which solution — cloud storage or an external hard drive — is more cost effective, byte for byte?
Dropping Dropbox: Exploring alternatives
I’ve chosen to abandon Dropbox…
Macworld reviews LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt 2: Small, sleek, and ridiculously fast
The Little Big Disk Thunderbolt 2 is the latest in desktop storage…
WWDC 2014’s biggest disappointment
The biggest disappointment of this year’s WWDC is that…
How to clean out old Mail downloads and reclaim disk space on your Mac
If you’re running low on disk space on your Mac, especially SSD space…
The best portable hard drives
“When considering a portable drive, there are a few things to keep in mind…
How much space do you save by downloading 720p movies instead of 1080p movies?
My bandwidth is somewhat limited…
How to reclaim storage space from iTunes
If you use your Mac to backup your iOS devices you probably have a few gig worth…
LaCie Fuel wireless 1TB drive: Really neat concept that works extremely well with iOS devices
Up to five people can access the drive at once…
Apple patent filing hints at home-based media server
A network media device is described that pulls multimedia data from…
New types of RAM could revolutionize your computer: MRAM and RRAM
New chips that blur the line between computer memory and storage…
