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How do you diagnose your RAM? If your computer crashes after installing a new set of RAMs, there are few possibilities. The first possibility is likely faulty RAM, the second possibility is hardware compatibility. More often than not if it […]

Which is the fastest Consumer SSD in the market? The Read and Write data by the manufacturer are not an accurate benchmark because they are not real world read write usage. The only way to benchmark them is to test […]

Bad sectors are basically sections of the hard disk that are inaccessible by the drive due to corruption or physical damage (not repairable via software) of the disk, they are possibly caused when the hard disk was dropped during operation. […]

Can I repartition my hard disk without formatting it? Yes, but first, when it comes to re-partitioning and resizing your hard disk, it is important to backup all the files in the drive onto an external hard disk. Mistakes can […]

How do I check the speed of my USB flash drive in Windows? How to know if the USB flash drive you purchase is genuine, apart from testing the actual storage capacity, speed is another factor. Some fake USB drives […]

Increasingly both Microsoft Windows and Apple macOS are intelligent enough to manage the amount of RAM available in the system, especially newer operating systems such as Windows 10 and macOS. Memory optimization software is not necessary unless you are still […]

Norton Ghost was the best free disk imaging software until Symantec decided to put a price tag on it and eventually discontinue the product, the last version is Norton Ghost 15 and is being replaced by enterprise version Symantec System […]

There are many fake capacity USB flash drives on the market that claim a particular capacity, but only deliver somewhat less than this (particularly the larger drives). This is sometimes referred to as fake ‘oversize capacity’. The counterfeit drives they […]

How to Format a Flash Drive to FAT32/exFAT/EXT4 in Windows? Windows 10 doesn’t let you format external USB drives larger than 32GB to the FAT32 file system. The format utility dialog offers just NTFS, and exFAT file systems for USB […]

What is faster than an SSD Hard Drive? The answer is RAM – virtual disk software, by loading most of your frequently used data onto your RAM makes your computer even faster, much faster than SSD when it comes to […]