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…
HEIC photo format and your photos
If you have updated to IOS 11 on your iPhone or iPad you may remember being asked if you want to use a high-efficiency way of storing your photos. If you answered yes then your photos started to be stored in a new format HIEC. This format allows much better compression without a reduction in quality to your photos This means you can store far more photos but like many things in life, there is…