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Best PC accessory Prime Day deals: 28 of our favorite discounts from Amazon's event

These are the only PC accessory deals you need to check out this Prime Day

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It’s summertime, which brings barbecues, fireworks, and the shopping extravaganza known as Amazon Prime Day. This year, Prime Day starts on July 11 and runs until the end of July 12. This is a great time to snag some discounted peripherals to complete your PC setup. Whether you’re shopping to build a home office around a new laptop or expanding your gaming rig with a Prime Day deal on a new CPU or GPU, you’ll find deep discounts on the devices you want for Prime Day.

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Best Prime Day SSD deals: Our 11 favorite discounts from the sales event

Save big on the fastest SSDs with speeds of more than 7,000MB/s!

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The best way to improve the performance of an older PC or to expand the capacity of a newer one is a solid-state drive (SSD). SSDs are considerably faster than mechanical hard disk drives (HDD) and, as such, were traditionally more expensive. Prices have dropped over recent years, and now it's possible to buy 2.5-inch SATA and M.2 NVMe SSDs for less. During promotions such as Amazon Prime Day, which takes place July 11-12, some of the best SSDs on the market will be discounted, allowing you to buy more capacity at reasonable prices.

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Get 18TB of storage for your NAS at this crazy good price

If you're considering building a NAS, you'll probably want a lot of storage, so why not start with 18TB at an all-time low price?

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Network-Attached Storage (or NAS, for short) is quite common, and is a great way for you to host a ton of files on your network for easy access at any time. Some people rip their DVDs and CDs to them, some people use them as backup servers, and some people just like to have a lot of easily-accessed storage. A NAS can be extremely useful, and if you're looking to build one or upgrade an existing one, then this 18TB Western Digital Red Pro HDD at its lowest price on Amazon ever might be a great place to start.

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Samsung microSD cards get a massive discount at up to 55% off

Stock up on storage while you can with these excellent deals.

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You can never have enough extra storage and microSD cards are an extremely compact solution. The format is versatile, and can be used in a wide variety of devices like smartphones, cameras, PCs, tablets, the Steam Deck, and more. If that wasn't enough, you get a wide assortment of options when it comes to size and speed, meaning that there's a microSD card for every budget. Samsung's EVO Select microSD cards are now on sale, and the biggest deal out of the bunch is the 256GB card being discounted by a whopping 55 percent off.

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Best SSDs for gaming in 2023

Up your game with a super-fast SSD. Here are our favorites, whether you're upgrading your PC or need more storage for your console.

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Solid-state drives (SSDs) have come a long way over recent years in terms of speeds and affordability. Previously, one would use an SSD for the operating system alone, simply due to how expensive flash storage was. It's possible to buy larger drives for less, which makes building (or upgrading) a gaming PC all the more exciting. Here, we've rounded up the very best SSDs for gaming.

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CrystalDiskMark: How it actually works

CrystalDiskMark is one of the most popular storage benchmarks, but how does it determine drive performance?

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CrystalDiskMark has been around for over a decade and it's one of the PC community's favorite ways to benchmark storage, whether it's hard drives, solid-state drives (SSD), or even flash drives. It's a simple, one-click benchmark that tells you how fast your storage is. But what exactly is it testing, and what do the results mean for your hardware? Here's what you need to know.

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Western Digital's My Book Duo drive now comes in a staggering 44TB capacity

Western Digital has expanded the storage capacity on the My Book drive to 22TB, and the My Book Duo to a crazy 44TB.

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Western Digital has expanded the storage capacity on two of its most popular hard drives. The My Book now comes with an option for 22TB of storage, and the My Book Duo now comes with a staggering 44TB of storage. These are Western Digital's highest capacity drives yet for everyday consumers like you and me.

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There were NO Synology NAS Black Friday deals — but there are for Cyber Monday!

Synology's NAS are worth it at full price, but luckily there are some Cyber Monday deals.

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Synology is the leading brand when it comes to network-attached storage (NAS). The company has a vast collection of enclosures for consumers and businesses with cloud-based services to back up its best-in-class operating system. It's safe to say, Synology is very much like a Microsoft of the NAS world. We've become accustomed to seeing Synology NAS on sale for Black Friday but this year the brand was a no-show.

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Crucial's 4TB X6 portable SSD has never been more affordable after a $190 Black Friday price cut

Mass storage in a portable form factor doesn't get much better

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Black Friday is a great time to save big on big ticket tech like TVs, PCs, and phones, but there are also plenty of great Black Friday accessory deals to browse. Crucial, one of the leading storage manufacturers you'll find today, currently has its external X6 portable SSD on deep sale for anyone who needs to upgrade their storage game. These drives are reliable, they perform very well with read speeds up to 800MB/s, and they're super compact. Amazon currently has the 4TB model down to just $260, which is $190 off the regular price. It's still a pricey accessory, but it's nowhere near what you'll pay when it's not on sale.

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It’s your last chance to jump on these 25 solid SSD deals

Save big on super-fast SSDs with these enticing Black Friday discounts.

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If you want drives with the very best transfer speeds, you're going to want to look at solid-state storage. They come in a whole host of flavors with different form factors and capacities to boot. The best Black Friday PC deals also include SSDs, so we've rounded up the best discounts.

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Black Friday is a great time to score a bargain on a new network-attached storage (NAS) device or some drives to install inside. When you've eventually run out of space on your local system and need additional storage, you could go down the route of buying an external drive and call it a day. NAS can take this to an entirely different level with plenty of smart features and the ability to run services and apps like Plex Media Server.

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Dolphin Emulator devs warn of limited functionality due to Android's Scoped Storage changes

Dolphin Emulator developers warn of limited functionality due to Android's Scoped Storage Changes. Read on to learn more.

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Android's Scoped Storage rules have been a major point of contention among app developers. While Scoped Storage is undoubtedly needed to reduce how much access apps have to a user's private files, its implementation fundamentally changes how apps can access your phone's internal storage, creating several limitations for a wide range of apps in the process. For instance, the developers behind Dolphin Emulator, which is the most popular open-source emulator for the Nintendo GameCube and Wii, have now warned that the emulator will offer limited functionality due to the Scoped Storage changes introduced in Android 11.

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The Western Digital easystore 14TB external drive is the most storage that you can buy at $190

The Western Digital easystore 14TB external hard drive can be used to build a solid media server for your home, now at a $190 price tag only.

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Black Friday is almost here and we are looking at impressive tech deals all around. Storage solution specialist, Western Digital, is offering its Easystore external hard disk drive with a massive 14-terabytes of storage at a discounted price. With a launch price of about $310, you can pick this up from Best Buy at just $190 which is a solid discount of $120. This is considerably low since internal hard drives with such capacity are priced at anything from $250-$400. This deal has been around since last month so stocks are likely running low – grab it while you can!

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Storage Redirect is a root app that isolates storage access for bad Android apps

Storage Redirect is an app that works on the same principle as Scoped Storage and lets you manage how apps use your storage.

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If you have ever browsed through the file directory of your phone, you probably would have noticed a huge pile of dormant folders and files that essentially serve no value. Many apps don’t follow the best practices and leave behind a large number of files after you uninstall them from your phone. To give users more control over their storage and limit app clutter, Google introduced Scoped Storage access in Android 10, which restricts how apps can access the external storage. While implementing Scoped Storage isn't mandatory for apps targeting Android 10, Google will fully implement this new change in the next major release: Android 11. 

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Accessories Review: Aukey and RAVPower Chargers, Cables, Power Banks, USB Hub, and Storage

We're taking a look at some popular accessories such as power banks, chargers, cables, USB hub, and SSD from Aukey and RAVPower. Check it out!

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Phone accessories can often be indispensable, especially to power users. Whether by trying to extend battery life or listening to some tunes, you probably use some smartphone accessories regularly, if not daily. From earphones to cables, charging bricks, and power banks, these enhance our smartphone experience by accentuating their pros or diminishing their cons. In this article, we will be taking a look at various phone accessories from Aukey and RAVpower, including chargers, cables, and power banks to help you compare and contrast some of the most competitive products in each category.

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Google will make file manager devs submit a form to get broad file storage access in Android 11

In order to bolster security, Google will require file manager developers to submit a form to get broad file storage access in Android 11.

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The Android 10 beta 2 released earlier this year revealed that Google was planning to limit the way apps can access your phone's internal storage. For this purpose, Google introduced something called Scoped Storage. However, due to backlash from several developers, the company had to backtrack on its implementation. The company allowed apps that don't yet target Android 10 to work as they used to and gave developers time until November 1st, 2020 to update their apps to target Android 10.

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The Storage Access Framework is the only way for apps to work with all your files in Android Q. And it's terrible.

The Scoped Storage changes in Android Q are a headache to deal with, because the Storage Access Framework has a few flaws right now.

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Android Q is fundamentally changing the way storage works on your phone. In every version up to Pie, Android's storage worked like a desktop computer: you can use any app you want to read or write any file (if you grant an app permission to do so). With Q, Google is introducing (and requiring) "Scoped Storage," which makes Android work more like an iPhone, where storage is isolated to each app. An app can only access its own files, and if it's uninstalled, all its files are deleted.

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The Journey of F2FS and why File Systems Matter: Interview with Stan Dmitriev from Tuxera

XDA interviews Stan Dmitriev from Tuxera, a Finnish company that specializes in file systems. Stan discusses file systems and the future of F2FS.

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File systems aren't discussed on XDA or any other forum all too often. The topic involves a lot of low-level development, so developers prefer to focus on applications, ROMs, or kernels. Nevertheless, the file system is a vital part of every storage. It's the technology that outlines how data in your device's storage is stored and retrieved. There are many different kinds of file systems—each with their own pros and cons—and picking one over another can make a huge difference in stability and performance. So how do OEMs make that choice? I had the pleasure to talk with Stan Dimitriev, the PR & Communications Manager at Tuxera, a Finnish company that provides file system solutions to many big OEMs.

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Clearing up Misconceptions regarding OP3 and OP3T Storage Speed Differences and F2FS

In this article, we look at the performance differences (or lack thereof) between the OnePlus 3 and OnePlus 3T's storage speed!

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Among the improvements that OnePlus touted for its OnePlus 3T release, we were told that the company had managed to improve app opening speeds and general loading times, something especially noticeable on heavy applications such as 3D games.