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Research Finds SSDs are Now WAY More Reliable than HDDs
SSDs (Solid State Drives) have certainly come a long way since they initially made their debut. Even though they have only become more commonplace over the last decade in desktop PCs, however, would it surprise you to learn that this year (technically) marks the storage solutions’ 30th birthday? – Going…
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TalkTalk Is The Worst Broadband Provider For 2nd Year Running
Ofcom Report Shows TalkTalk is the worth broadband provider for the 2nd year running With the mass integration that the internet has in our lives these days, finding a good provider is as important as your gas or electric. It is perhaps something of a first world problem that without…
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SSD Reliability Study Shows SLC No Better than MLC
The first SSDs we had all used SLC or single level cell, holding 1 bit per cell. As SSDs grew more and more common and advanced, different tech like MLC (multi-level cell) and TLC (triple-level cell) grew more common, with 2 and 3 bits per cell respectively. While consumers have…
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ASUS Motherboards Have The Lowest RMA Rate According to Independent Analysis
Hardware.fr is part of LDLC, the largest seller of computer components in France and periodically releases statistics about customer returns. This allows us to gauge quite accurately each manufacturer’s RMA rate as a percentage and overall reliability. The RMA rates relate to models sold between October 1st, 2014 and April 1st,…
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Internet Speed Might Increase Thanks to New ‘Teleportation’ Technology
People always thought about teleportation as a way of beaming beings or objects from one point in space and time to another. And the technology might even be achievable in the near future, according to professor Ronald Hanson from Delft University of Technology in Netherlands. But there might be a…
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