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 more you use it, the more it ages. Till it gets to a point where it packs up and says, “I’m done”. I’m not doing […]

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 purpose use have had to tackle this question as well. So since we have been looking at the storage options on offer for smartphones and […]

Solid State Drives are now becoming popular but more importantly, cheaper. So lets tackle the question, what are SSDs? An Solid state drive is a type of device that uses flash memory to store data permanently. It usually functions as a secondary memory for PCs and tertiary storage in general. SSDs are used to store […]

Flash memory is the most dominant form of storage used in the world today. It comes in many form factors, shapes, and sizes. No smartphone alive today would function without one, but wait, what is flash memory? What is flash memory? Flash memory is an electronic non-volatile storage medium that is used to hold data […]