Category Hardware notes

We discuss issues related to hardware, peripherals and asociated items.

Computer terms: What is ‘memory’?

Clients with older computers sometimes tell me they are battling because they are running out of memory on their computers. But what exactly is memory? In reality what is happening is that they are running out of storage, not memory.…

SSD Upgrades to desktops and laptops

SSD (Solid state drive) is a new type of hard drive that has no moving parts and uses electronic chips called NVRAM (non-volatile RAM) to store data. This results in much faster performance than with conventional hard drives, which use…