Keeping Smartphones Simple
Hello and welcome to another post. Let’s look at why microSD cards and internal storage do not contain as much capacity as advertised. A microSD card is an external or…
Let’s assume you just purchased a brand new microSD card for your phone. Do you stick it inside the phone and use straight away or do you format it before…
File systems are methods used by a computer to organize and manage the data on its storage devices. File systems are important because because computers (and smartphones) have so many…
A microSD card is a very small proprietary flash memory card that is used to save data. MicroSD cards are a type of Secure Digital card that are designed to…
Wear leveling is a technique used by manufacturers to extend the lifespan of flash memory. Brief background With silicon based technology, everytime you use it, it ages a little. The…
Hard Drives vs SSDs is one of the very many questions I have to field. Lots of people who want to buy a laptop or a storage drive for general…
SSDs are now becoming popular but more importantly, cheaper. So lets tackle the question, what are SSDs? An SSD or solid state drive is a type of device that uses…
If you have been reading my blog for a while now, you’ll notice that I have blogged at length about flash storage and the different types used on smartphones. One…
Hi there, in today’s post, we are going to be looing at eMMC vs UFS storage for smartphones. The internal storage of a smartphone is a space that is used…
What is UFS storage for smartphones? Well to answer that, we need to know what smartphone storage is. Storage is a place where you keep stuff. All smartphones (and computers)…