"Mass storage today is cheap and plentiful. Despite this seeming cornucopia of buckets for your bits, storage technology is still evolving. We'll take a look at some of the key areas of technical evolution in the arena of personal storage. Here, we'll be focusing on disk-based media, both optical and hard disk, with an eye on near-term buying decisions."
ExtremeTech has a nice article on all the different mass storage devices on the market from Serial ATA and Optical Storage to NAS and Firewire/USB. If you are running low on disk space or are unsure of what you need to backup your data, check this in-depth article out.
Mmmmm, storage. Yummy. Imagine my surprise when I tried to digitize my Hawaii vacation videos (about 4 hours), and found they took up about 120GB on my machine 8O
I have a brand new SATA drive that's super speedy and does wonders for improving video editing performance. With three drives in my system now I can have the app loading from one drive, a second for reading, and a third for writing. It makes a huge difference!
New Strategies for Personal Mass Storage
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