Newsletter Archives
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Terabyte update 2021
ISSUE 18.22 • 2021-06-14 HARDWARE
By Will Fastie
The price of storage is in flux for a variety of reasons, making predictions extremely difficult.
In my previous article on this subject about a year ago (AskWoody 17.21.0), I wrote an expanded version of an article I have been writing on my personal site for a number of years. The article attempted to illustrate the difference in price between hard disk drives (HDD, rotating magnetic discs) and solid-state drives (SSD, flash memory). The goal was to establish that HDD had a significant price advantage over SSD; over the period of time covered, SSDs were small, very expensive, and primarily used as small boot drives in PCs needing high performance.
Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.22.0 (2021-06-14).
This story also appears in the AskWoody Free Newsletter 18.22.F (2021-06-14). -
A welcome change in Win10’s cleanup tools
LANGALIST
By Fred Langa
Version 1903 adds new and useful functions to Win10’s Settings/Storage menus. The new Storage also corrects some truly boneheaded user-interface mistakes Microsoft made in the previous version!
Plus: A reader recommends a free tool to fix Win10 permissions issues, and making and using custom versus generic recovery drives.
Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 16.24.0 (2019-07-01).
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Finding your photos in the cloud
Have you ever wanted to bring up a particular photo or two (or eight) on your smartphone?
Maybe you want to revisit your last vacation or your child’s wedding. Or perhaps you want to show off photos of your grandchildren — but not too many … you don’t want to annoy people. Here’s how to find images in OneDrive, Google Photos, and Dropbox.
See the full story in the June 10, 2019, AskWoody Plus Newsletter (Issue 16.21.0)