Arol Wright

Stop putting your dead HDDs in the freezer: 3 data recovery “hacks” that guarantee permanent data loss

Stop putting your dead HDDs in the freezer: 3 data recovery “hacks” that guarantee permanent data loss

Arol Wright March 5, 2026

Why baking or freezing your hard drive turns recoverable data into metallic dust

Dead laptops, old DVRs, and PS4s: How to harvest free SATA drives for your PC

Dead laptops, old DVRs, and PS4s: How to harvest free SATA drives for your PC

Arol Wright March 4, 2026

Don't throw away these 3 obsolete devices, they're a goldmine of free storage

Don’t trust your backups: Here’s what to do immediately after copying your data

Don’t trust your backups: Here’s what to do immediately after copying your data

Arol Wright March 3, 2026

How silent bit rot and power surges destroy 'completed' backups

Why your external HDD is secretly hardware-encrypted (and 3 other mechanical storage myths)

Why your external HDD is secretly hardware-encrypted (and 3 other mechanical storage myths)

Arol Wright March 3, 2026

4 hard drive myths putting your data at risk

The 2026 storage crisis: Why AI data centers are hoarding every hard drive on the market

The 2026 storage crisis: Why AI data centers are hoarding every hard drive on the market

Arol Wright March 1, 2026

Why spinning rust won't save you from the global SSD price surge

The SSD cache trap: Why NVMe drives won’t speed up your Plex NAS

The SSD cache trap: Why NVMe drives won’t speed up your Plex NAS

Arol Wright March 1, 2026

The engineering reason your NAS doesn't need an SSD cache

Burned write cycles and zero seek time: Why defragging an SSD is actively destroying it

Burned write cycles and zero seek time: Why defragging an SSD is actively destroying it

Arol Wright March 1, 2026

Here's why defragging is (mostly) not a thing anymore

120Gbps: Why Thunderbolt 5 is overkill for your SSD (but an eGPU miracle)

120Gbps: Why Thunderbolt 5 is overkill for your SSD (but an eGPU miracle)

Arol Wright February 27, 2026

You (probably) don't need Thunderbolt 5

The hidden speed penalty of smaller SSDs: Why NAND parallelization makes 2TB drives physically faster

The hidden speed penalty of smaller SSDs: Why NAND parallelization makes 2TB drives physically faster

Arol Wright February 26, 2026

Higher-capacity SSDs are also faster—here's why

Asynchronous vibrations: The physical reason mixing 5400 and 7200 RPM drives ruins your NAS

Asynchronous vibrations: The physical reason mixing 5400 and 7200 RPM drives ruins your NAS

Arol Wright February 26, 2026

Here's why you shouldn't mix different speed HDDs on your NAS

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