You Need to Do More Than Delete Files on an External Drive to Make Them Permanently Disappear

There’s a trick to thoroughly wiping all your data before you junk your old external solid state drive—or even computer.
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Thinking about using PC drives inside your NAS? I did and here's how it went.

I always recommend using drives designed for network-attached storage (NAS) inside such an enclosure to ensure you have the performance and reliability required for continuous operation. That said, I ...
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Portable SSDs aren’t just for PC backups. Here’s why everybody needs one

Portable solid-state drives are great, offering lots of storage and faster speeds than a USB flash drive while in a still-portable package. People often use them to back up their PCs with backup ...
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Raspberry Pi 5’s newest add-on lets you squeeze an M.2 2230 SSD inside the official RPi 5 case

The Raspberry Pi 5 is the first single-board computer from Raspberry Pi to feature support for PCIe add-ons like M.2 SSDs. But since there’s no M.2 slot on the board itself you need an adaptor board ...
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How to install App Store apps on an external SSD

Apple's macOS Sequoia now lets you install apps on external SSD drives instead of taking up space on your internal one — but it doesn't tell you this, so here's how to do it. Even with the latest Macs ...
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Microchip Introduces PCIe Gen 5 SSD Controllers

CHANDLER, Ariz., August 5, 2024 — Microchip Technology (Nasdaq: MCHP) has released the Flashtec NVMe 5016 Solid State Drive (SSD) controller. The 16-channel, PCIe Gen 5 NVM Express (NVMe) controller ...
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Micron Introduces PCIe Gen5 Data Center SSD

The Micron 9550 SSD delivers best-in-class performance with 14.0 GB/s sequential reads and 10.0 GB/s sequential writes to provide up to 67 percent better performance over similar competitive SSDs 1 ...