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What Makes Apple’s SSDs So Fast? NVMe SSDs

April 8, 2019 by Alexander Fox 3 Comments

Storage technology has evolved by leaps and bounds since the dawn of the computer age. Today’s leap forward is NVMe, a storage system that promises to exponentially increase the bandwidth available to storage devices. Apple’s SSDs are well-made, no doubt, but that’s not their sole source of speed. That is granted by the impressive bandwidth […]

Filed Under: Mac Tagged With: Flash Storage, iPhone, Mac, Storage

Spring Clean: Tips to Free Up iPhone Storage Space

April 6, 2018 by Apple Gazette 1 Comment

One of the most annoying things about the iPhone is getting the notification that pops up when you’re trying to take a photo or trying to back up your new settings to the iCloud saying you are out of storage. Managing the storage on the iPhone and iCloud isn’t always easy. In fact, many people […]

Filed Under: iCloud, iPhone Tagged With: iCloud, Storage

What’s the Difference Between A Disk and Volume on macOS?

March 26, 2018 by Alexander Fox Leave a Comment

When working with storage devices on macOS, you’ll encounter a lot of terms referring to your storage device. There are disks, partitions, volumes, and images, as well as containers and the ever-popular drives. While the internal usage of these terms isn’t completely consistent, getting a handle on what they mean will make it easier to […]

Filed Under: Mac Tagged With: Disk Utility, Mac, macos, Storage

Format Hard Drives with Disk Utility in macOS

July 4, 2017 by Alexander Fox Leave a Comment

There’s a dark corner of your Applications folder that few users dare go: the Utilities folder. In here, you’ll find many mysterious applications with opaque uses and confusing titles. We’ve already covered a few, like Activity Monitor and Console. But those aren’t nearly as useful as Disk Utility, an app that many Mac users would […]

Filed Under: Mac Tagged With: Disk Utility, macos, Storage

Restore iPhone Backups to Recover Lost Space

March 9, 2017 by Alexander Fox Leave a Comment

The iPhone is not great at managing its internal storage. Its hard to figure out exactly why this happens, but over time your iPhone’s ability to assess its available free space degrades. This can result in spurious error messages indicating your running out of storage, even though you’re not. You can restore iPhone backups to reset […]

Filed Under: iPhone Tagged With: iPhone, Storage

Base plop SSD Desk Storage – for Those Who Need More

June 10, 2015 by Noemi Leave a Comment

Earlier this year, we featured a beautiful SSD enclosure called plops. The concept is simple, with only a mere push-and-pull action to insert an SSD to expand your storage. The makers of plops have once again put their creative energies into gear and are promoting a new product on Indiegogo. It is just like plops, but […]

Filed Under: Accessories Tagged With: Indiegogo, SSD, Storage

Save on Storage Space With the iPocket Drive

March 10, 2015 by Noemi 1 Comment

It used to be that an iPhone with 8GB of storage space was more than enough. Especially if you didn’t download too many apps and didn’t store a lot of media. These days, though, even 16GB is not enough! I don’t even have any music on my iPhone, and the other day, I realized my […]

Filed Under: Accessories Tagged With: Charger, Flash Storage, Indiegogo, Storage

How to Upgrade iCloud Storage to the New, Cheaper Plans

September 16, 2014 by Brian Meyer 1 Comment

  In preparation for iOS 8 Apple has updated their iCloud storage plans and while they’re still more expensive than Dropbox and Google Drive, the new pricing and storage is far better than anything offered by Apple ever before. Check out the steps below to get signed up for the new iCloud storage plans and […]

Filed Under: iOS Tagged With: iCloud, ios 8, paid, Storage, yosemite

5 Ways to Reclaim Disk Space in OS X

July 15, 2014 by Brian Meyer Leave a Comment

Even though MacBook and Mac Pros have been getting larger and larger internal drives, those of us with SSD drives are still fighting the storage wars, trying to keep the clutter off of drives that while extremely fast, aren’t always the largest when it comes to capacity. The longer you have your Mac the more […]

Filed Under: Feature, How-To, OS X Tagged With: Dropbox, Google Drive, Hard drive, How To, iTunes, Mac, Storage, tips and tricks

How to Reclaim Hard Drive Space from iTunes

March 25, 2014 by Brian Meyer 4 Comments

If you use your Mac to backup your iOS devices you probably have a few gig worth of backups you really don’t need. While those of us with huge hard drives may not care, Mac users that have SSDs and MacBook Airs would probably really like to get that space back. Worse yet, if you’re […]

Filed Under: iTunes Tagged With: harddrive, How To, iTunes, SSD, Storage

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