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The hidden speed penalty of smaller SSDs: Why NAND parallelization makes 2TB drives physically faster
Higher-capacity SSDs are also faster—here's why
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
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
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
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
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
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
Power Loss Protection shouldn't be an enterprise exclusive: Why your next NVMe needs PLP capacitors
The DRAM cache trap—why a simple power outage can instantly corrupt your consumer SSD
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 one cheap smart home upgrade your NAS needs
Not all smart home upgrades have to cost an arm and a leg.
Stop throwing away old SSDs: 4 ways to reuse 'obsolete' storage
Plug your old SSD into your router: The '5-minute NAS' trick
Updating SSD firmware is risky—but sometimes it's the only fix
Here's why you should (and shouldn't) update your SSD firmware
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
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'
Ran out of M.2 slots? This overlooked BIOS feature is the fix
This forgotten motherboard feature can double your NVMe storage
You already own a NAS: 5 old devices that make perfect home servers
Stop buying expensive NAS enclosures: You likely already own one
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.
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.
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