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(Answer requested by Trevor Noble) Why does it take so long to paint a house compared to a garden shed? 🙂 Laptops are typically much more capacious than phones, and carry far more software and files. EG: My phone (an S10) has 128GB of internal drive storage, with 75GB currently in use (filled with files…
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(Answer requested by Gabriel Yeung) You want the technical answer, or the practical answer? Technically speaking, if your average working dataset is larger than 64MB, then YES, a HDD (hard drive) with a larger internal electronic cache (aka “buffer”) will probably perform better than the same drive with a smaller cache because the cache can…
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There are literally dozens of “reasons for the season” — every culture and religion has some kind of solstice-timed holiday — but no matter what you observe, I’m hoping it’s a good one! November: Christianity All Saints Day: 1 November – in Western Christian churches Nativity Fast: forty days leading to Christmas – also St Philip’s fast, Christmas fast, or winter lent or…
(Answer requested by ZeeForce Gaming) Encrypted files are still just 1s and 0s. So, if you’re talking about recovering encrypted files after a crash, hardware failure, or something similar, you may be able to lift the encrypted bits off the defective drive using utterly normal data/disk-recovery software, and write the still-encrypted data to a working…