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An 8TB HGST hard drive with a 2TB WD_BLACK NVMe SSD sitting on top of it.
The hidden speed penalty of smaller SSDs: Why NAND parallelization makes 2TB drives physically faster

Higher-capacity SSDs are also faster—here's why

Multiple drive trays pulled out from the Ugreen iDX6011 Pro NAS with a hard drive visible inside the bay.
Asynchronous vibrations: The physical reason mixing 5400 and 7200 RPM drives ruins your NAS

Here's why you shouldn't mix different speed HDDs on your NAS

A Western Digital hard drive in a drive bay.
Turbine noise and head crashes: The physical limits that killed the 15,000 RPM hard drive

Why hard drives maxed out at 7,200 RPM: The engineering nightmare of spinning platters faster

Multiple drive trays pulled out from the Ugreen iDX6011 Pro NAS with a hard drive visible inside the bay.
The ROM chip trap: Why swapping a dead hard drive's PCB will instantly crash its read/write heads

How a simple PCB swap will permanently destroy your modern hard drive

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The Ugreen iDX6011 Pro NAS front panel showing all six numbered drive bays and connectivity ports.
Your NAS drives are 100% healthy, but your files are dead: The illusion of SMART tests

SMART tests are not enough: Why your NAS needs data scrubbing to survive

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A 500GB Western Digital WD Blue 2.5-inch hard drive being held in a hand.
SSDs killed the dual-actuator HDD: Why two mechanical arms couldn't save the hard drive

Why doubling a hard drive's IOPS still can't beat cheap NVMe

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A SanDisk 32GB SD card sitting on a table.
Sony Memory Sticks, xD, and SmartMedia: 7 forgotten storage formats that definitely stole your files

Which fragile format stole your files? Take a trip down memory (card) lane

The back of the Crucial T710 NVMe SSD sitting on a walnut shelf.
Power Loss Protection shouldn't be an enterprise exclusive: Why your next NVMe needs PLP capacitors
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The DRAM cache trap—why a simple power outage can instantly corrupt your consumer SSD

DDS-2 tape with ruler for scale.
The lost era of SCSI tape drives: Why 90s PCs backed up data on audio cassettes

Yes, people really once backed up PCs on tape

The UGREEN iDX6011 Pro NAS with drives pulled out of it.
The one cheap smart home upgrade your NAS needs

Not all smart home upgrades have to cost an arm and a leg.

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The SanDisk Extreme PRO Portable SSD with USB4 and its USB-C cable.
Stop throwing away old SSDs: 4 ways to reuse 'obsolete' storage
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Plug your old SSD into your router: The '5-minute NAS' trick

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TerraMaster's F4 SSD NAS with four different NVMe SSDs installed.
Updating SSD firmware is risky—but sometimes it's the only fix
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Here's why you should (and shouldn't) update your SSD firmware

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A 500GB Western Digital WD Blue 2.5-inch hard drive being held in a hand.
Don't throw away old laptops: They are a 'goldmine' for free storage

Tearing apart my old laptops saved me hundreds on HDD and SSD storage

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Hard drive connected to a USB adapter on a wooden surface.
Windows is lying to you: Why your '2TB' drive only shows 1.8TB

You didn't get scammed: The difference between a Terabyte and a 'Tebibyte'

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A straight-on shot of the Crucial T710, Samsung 9100 Pro, and Samsung 990 EVO Plus NVMe SSDs mounted to a motherboard.
Ran out of M.2 slots? This overlooked BIOS feature is the fix

This forgotten motherboard feature can double your NVMe storage

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A Beelink mini PC and Terramaster NAS together on a shelf.
You already own a NAS: 5 old devices that make perfect home servers

Stop buying expensive NAS enclosures: You likely already own one

Illustration of a Windows laptop with a folder showing an error icon and PowerShell above it.
These 5 apps are quietly eating gigabytes of storage on your PC

Spotify, Signal, cloud sync, browsers, and Windows Update can hoard caches and leftovers. Here’s where the space goes and how to reclaim it.

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iPhone 14 Pro Max in Various Colors with the storage settings showing 200 GB used out of 1 TB.
I felt dumb for buying a 1TB phone—but I got the last laugh!

Excess turned into success.

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The back of the Crucial T710 NVMe SSD sitting on a walnut shelf.
DirectStorage was supposed to revolutionize gaming—But is it even working on your PC?

The best feature you might not even know you already have.

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Samsung 850 EVO SSD with M.2 SSD and SATA hard drive.
Stop destroying your main SSD: Why you might still need a 'scratch disk' in 2026

Save your expensive Gen 5 drive from burnout with a cheap scratch disk

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