Why the heck is Amazon selling these fake 16 terabyte portable hard drives? – Review Geeks

[ad_1] Josh Hendrickson/Review Geek If you see a 16 terabyte portable SSD on Amazon for $100 or less, don’t buy it. Such a unit would cost thousands of dollars. These are nothing more than a scam, and they don’t work well at all. We bought one and got a glorified 64GB hard drive. When it … Read more

Are mechanical hard drives really obsolete?

[ad_1] kckate16/Shutterstock.com Mechanical drives are no longer the best option for running operating systems and applications, but these devices have many advantages in their own right and continue to improve with new technological advances. Affectionately known as “spinning rust” among some computer nerds, mechanical hard drives look almost quaint in comparison to hyper-fast SSDs. However, … Read more