What type of hard drive should I buy?

16 August 2024 13:44:38 EDT

For most people, hard drives go beyond being a simple object. They are the keeper of our memories, work files, favorite music tracks, and personal videos. In essence, they are the digital archive of...

01 November 2023 08:53:45 EDT

Our Complete Guide to SSD Recovery

SSDs, or solid-state drives, are a new generation of storage devices that perform the same function as a hard drive, but where data is stored on interconnected flash memory chips that retain the data...

24 February 2022 00:00:00 EST

Kingston Blog: Enterprise and Client SSDs compared

A growing number of high-throughput, low-latency business data centres have relied on hard disk drives (HDDs) in their servers and are now facing performance bottlenecks. Today, they envisage Solid...

21 October 2021 00:00:00 EDT

Data Recovery 101: Hard Drive Failures vs. Solid-State and Flash Failures

We’ve examined the proper way to assess your data loss situation at the onset and the differences between logical data loss and physical data loss. Now, we’ll discuss the different types of damage...

30 July 2020 00:00:00 EDT

SSD Lifespan: How Long do SSDs Really Last?

Until a couple of years ago, many IT administrators and managers were concerned about the risk of losing valuable data because of a sudden failure. That’s why it took manufacturers a long time to...

18 April 2019 00:00:00 EDT

How to store data on Mars

Storing data in outer space is no walk in the park! There are many differences between using computers on Earth and operating them on another planet, or just space in general. Luckily, a few...

31 January 2019 00:00:00 EST

What is Write Amplification (WA) and how it affects the SSD?

In a recent blog, we described Garbage Collection and the Trim command. Both are methods to mark and set data that are no longer in use and can, therefore, be overwritten in a Flash NAND based SSD....

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