Friday night topic: How do you manage your storage?
Most folks these days have many gigabytes, if not terabytes, of personal and family data to manage: pictures, videos, financial info, and so on. Storage capacities for media of all sorts keep growing, but so does the demand, as I noted earlier today. Keeping up with all of it, and making sure your most treasured data is safe, will take some planning and effort.
When I think about it, it's kind of amazing how complex my setup for
dealing with storage really is. I employ a series of measures in a rough
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Samsung prepping firmware fix for the 840 EVO's slow read speeds with old data
Scores of people with Samsung 840 EVO SSDs have reported slow read speeds with older files. The problem seems to be most pronounced with data that's several months old, and it may be related to voltage drift within the drive's TLC NAND cells. Three-bit NAND is especially sensitive to voltage changes, and if those changes become too large over time, the error correction required to compensate could slow read performance considerably.
Whatever the cause, Samsung has a solution. The ...
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New Far Cry 4 trailer shows villain, crazy stunt moves
The news is winding down today, and you know what that means: game trailers! As it happens, Ubisoft has posted a new trailer for Far Cry 4, which shows the game's main antagonist in his element—along with some cool action scenes to spice things up.
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Deal of the week: Canon's Rebel T5 DSLR for $349, an ultra-wide IPS monitor for $300, and more
This week's deals post is so all over the place that I almost don't know where to begin. Let's start with something a little different:
That's all for this week. If you spot any deals we've ...
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How I saved over 40GB and probably sped up disk access
I was going to make this an Etc. post, but apparently that's not good SEO. Such is
Anyhow, after a long string of reviews without much time to catch my breath, I've been forced to pay attention to some neglected issues this week, including the ...
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Intel to jointly develop x86 SoC with another Chinese chip company
Intel has announced plans to work with another Chinese chip company—well, two of them, actually. The firm will invest $1.5 billion in Tsinghua Unigroup, a state-owned corporation that controls Spreadtrum Communications and RDA Microelectronics, two "leading fabless semiconductor companies in China."
Spreadtrum and RDA design chips for smartphones, feature phones, and consumer electronics devices. As part of the deal, they'll work with Intel to "expand the product offerings and adoption for Intel-based mobile devices in China." The partnership will ...
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Apple downplays bendgate reports
Recent reports suggest that Apple's new iPhones, particularly the iPhone 6 Plus, have a tendency to bend in users' pockets. Apple has addressed those reports and downplayed the extent of the problem.
In an official statement relayed by The Verge, the company says the new iPhones' aluminum unibody construction is "tempered for extra strength" and uses "stainless steel and titanium inserts to reinforce high stress locations." The devices were subjected to "rigorous tests" that included "3-point bending, pressure point cycling, sit, torsion, ...
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New video shows more of Euclideon's voxel rendering mojo
You may have seen our writeup about Euclideon yesterday. The company's technology couples voxels with 3D-scanned data from the real world, and the results are pretty compelling.
The firm has now posted a new video that ...
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Report: Nexus 6 phone may be a giant phablet
Waiting for the Nexus 6? You might want to start by getting some bigger pockets. 9to5Google claims to have the dirt on the latest Nexus 6 prototype, and it says the device features a humongous 5.92" display.
If the report is true, then the Nexus 6 is larger than both the iPhone 6 Plus, which has a 5.5" screen, and the Samsung Galaxy ...
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Corsair Gaming's K70 RGB keyboard reviewed
Big changes are afoot at Corsair. The company just launched its new Corsair Gaming division, which is focused on making peripherals like mice, keyboards, and headsets tailored to the specific needs of elite PC gamers.
To mark the launch of this new division, the firm introduced one of its first Corsair Gaming products, the K70 RGB. With Corsair-exclusive Cherry MX RGB LED key switches and a very sophisticated backlight controller onboard, the ...
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Bash vulnerability allows code execution, may be worse than Heartbleed bug
The Internet is grappling with another major security vulnerability. According to the Red Hat security blog, the Bash Unix shell is vulnerable to code injection attacks. Dubbed Shellshock, this flaw is severe enough that the Department of Homeland Security's Computer Emergency Readiness Team has issued an alert advising users running Linux and OS X to patch their systems.
The National Vulnerability Database rates the flaw as a 10/10 for impact and exploitability. More worryingly, perhaps, Shellshock apparently has "low" access complexity and no ...
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Steam Music lets players make their own game soundtracks
After seven months of beta testing, Steam's integrated music player has finally been integrated into the official client. The addition is part of the Steam update released yesterday; it includes basic playback, playlist, and library functionality that can be accessed through the desktop interface, Big Picture mode, and the in-game Steam overlay.
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