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Save Hard Drive Space While Using Windows 10’s Fast Startup With This Command
1Windows 10’s Fast Startup feature is a handy way to boot up your machine quicker. However, if you don’t use the hibernate function, it can take up a lot of hard drive space. Here’s how to fix that.
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What Happens When 5 SSDs Are Hit With 2PB Of Writes Over A Year?
The last time we read anything about SSD longevity, it was courtesy of the Tech Report’s ambitious project to punish a variety of SSDs over the course of many months. That was at 500TB of constant writes, where all the drives were still in the race. At two petabytes however… some losers have appeared.
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Ask LH: Is It Worth Upgrading An Old MacBook Pro?
Hi Lifehacker, I have an early 2011 15″ MacBook Pro which is just about to hit its three-year anniversary. I have been thinking about upgrading it with a 500GB SSD, which will cost me about $380. I’m just not sure if it’s worth the investment, or if I’d be better off selling it on eBay…
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Ask LH: What’s This Odd File On My MacBook Pro?
Dear Lifehacker, I was recently performing maintenance cleaning on MacBook Pro [late 2011, 17″ 128GB SSD, 8GB RAM] , and there is a file on the SSD that is 27GB and says “backup”. I can’t for the life of me find where the heck that file is, or WHAT it is, or how to get…
