What is Wear Leveling?
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 (Space vs Speed)
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…
What are SSDs?
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…
What is Flash memory?
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…