SD cards could soon hold 128TB of storage
A story by Dani Deahl in the Verge talks about a new standard for SD cards bring them up to a whopping 128TB. However, don't look for it for sale anytime soon. Right now the maximum storage space on an SD card is 2TB, and that limit was promised as far back as 2009, but still hasn’t been reached. In 2016, SanDisk unveiled a prototype 1 terabyte SD card that would make it the biggest in the world,…
Getting Rid of Your Mac? Here’s How to Securely Erase a Hard Drive or SSD
A very informative post over at the Backblaze blog about how to securely wipe the drive on your mac. What do I do with a Mac that still has personal data on it? Do I take out the disk drive and smash it? Do I sweep it with a really strong magnet? Is there a difference in how I handle a hard drive (HDD) versus a solid-state drive (SSD)? Well, taking a sledgehammer or…
E-Guide for backing up your device with Google Photos
*** Update *** I had a great response to the e-guide. So much so that I'm going to create a revised edition. So I've taken the link down to the old version. I have written a quick e-guide on how to use Google Photos to backup the photos on your smartphone or tablet. This basic guide takes you through the steps necessary to setup Google Photos to backup your device. I wrote the…