A few weeks ago, a friend asked me what the problem might be when all browsers stop working. More specifically: Whenever they tried to launch either Microsoft Edge […]
Format drives with a capacity of over 32 GB as FAT32 under Windows
FAT32 is essentially the “standard file system” for many devices, especially embedded and older ones. The Nintendo Wii, for example, only supports FAT32-formatted SD cards, just as many […]
Thoughts on the current situation with data storage devices and RAM
After high-capacity hard drives and subsequently SSDs and RAM of all kinds had risen sharply in price due to extreme demand from AI companies, this unexpected news came […]
External 3.5″ hard drives from WD and their deliberate incompatibilities
There used to be many hard drive manufacturers, but today there are only a few. Three have survived the flood of solid state drives, which are generally better […]
Retro-XP-PC #8:
Storage
Since Windows XP can only handle MBR partitions, the boot drive is pretty obvious: it has to be a SATA SSD with 2 TB capacity, which is the […]
Performance reference:
Memory cards
For reference and comparison purposes only, I try to test all Secure Digital memory cards (SD / SDHC / SDXC, including Mini and Micro) that come my way […]
Performance reference:
USB flash drives
For reference and comparison purposes only, I try to test all USB sticks that come my way using CrystalDiskMark v9.0.1 (64-bit) with default settings and collect the results, […]