SSDs have been in the market for a while now and they’ve garnered a great deal of acceptance from everyone who cares about storage. Seeing as everything is about performance when it comes to using almost any device these days, SSDs are like the epitome of performance in storage and aside from the fact that they are extremely quick, there are a number of other benefits to using an SSD. Power Consumption: Saving power is the need of the hour and it’s something all of the current-gen computer components are trying to achieve. Not only do we regularly see a drop in power consumption on new releases of CPUs, we also see this trend to save power with almost all of the devices today. Since SSDs are flash based and have no moving parts inside them, they do extremely well to utilize much less energy than HDDs. This is like music to the ears of people who are always concerned about their overall power consumption. As SSDs consume a very low amount of power, using them means that you’ll have low...

Gone are the days when you would have to sit around or think of something else to do while you were transferring data or waiting for an application to load up. Technology has taken everything good that it has to offer, bundled it up and evolved the way we do almost everything on our computing devices. The offshoot of this evolution has improved the storage industry by quite a fair margin which in turn has enhanced storage devices and products. It was only a while back that we consumers had to use mechanical hard disk drives for storage and didn’t have elaborate storage options to choose from. The only choices that we had with mechanical HDDs were in the form of different RPM based drives which although bettered the performance but the price to performance ratio was too less to justify a purchase. This was the case until the introduction of SSDs. What is an SSD? A SSD or Solid State Drive is a storage device used in a computer that provides similar functionalities like a mechani...

What Are Spyware Programs? What Can Spyware Programs Do? Spyware programs can accomplish a multitude of malicious tasks. Some of their deeds are simply annoying for the user; others can become downright aggressive in nature. Spyware can:- Monitor your keystrokes for reporting purposes. Scan files located on your hard drive. Snoop through applications on our desktop. Install other spyware programs into your computer. Read your cookies. Steal credit card numbers, passwords, and other personal information. Change the default settings on your home page web browser. Mutate into a second generation of spyware thus making it more difficult to eradicate. Cause your computer to run slower. Deliver annoying pop up advertisements. Add advertising links to web pages for which the author does not get paid. Instead, payment is directed to the spyware programmer that changed the original affiliate’s settings.  Provide the user with no uninstall opti...