Tips By Malcolm Owen Monday, March 05, 2018, 10:51 am PT (01:51 pm ET) A user's music and video collection can be one of the largest consumers of hard drive space on a Mac, and is typically overlooked in favor of other items when it comes time to free up drive space. This guide explains how to shift where iTunes stores all of the content to an external drive. Users looking for ways to reduce the amount of things they store on their Mac usually steer clear of doing anything to iTunes and their precious music collection. Even at a time when there are many popular streaming services available to use, deleting these files is not viewed as an option, making iTunes itself an obstacle for salvaging a Mac's drive. Moving iTunes to an external drive is one compromise, one which still keeps the music available, but off the primary storage drive completely. Though daunting to users, possibly due to the sentimentality associated with music collection, moving an iTunes Library is a relatively … [Read more...] about How to free up your Mac’s internal storage by moving your iTunes Library to an external drive
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Galaxy S6 Storage Benchmarks Show It Blowing All Past Phones Out Of The Water
Samsung announced its new UFS 2.0 memory in capacities up to 128GB just days before the Galaxy S6 was official, so we all correctly surmised Samsung's new flagship would make use of the new, faster storage. Some early benchmarks of devices at MWC show just how speedy the Galaxy S6's storage can be. It just destroys every currently available phone. Maybe you won't even mind the lack of a microSD card when the internal storage is this fast. The new UFS 2.0 NAND standard offers considerably faster performance than the eMMC that has been used until now. It can read and write at the same time and has command queuing to prioritize tasks. According to Samsung, the UFS chips it is making are capable of theoretical max sequential read/write speeds of 350 and 150 MB/s. That's 1.4 and 1.6 times faster than eMMC, respectively. The numbers presented by Phone Arena certainly point to monster performance from the Galaxy S6. Sequential read Using the Androbench app, the Galaxy S6 crushed the Note 4, … [Read more...] about Galaxy S6 Storage Benchmarks Show It Blowing All Past Phones Out Of The Water
Motorola Moto E5’s Display, Storage, Camera Info Leaks
March 2, 2018 - Written By Joshua Swingle A new set of tweets said to reveal a number of details related to Motorola’s upcoming Moto E5 line surfaced online earlier this week. The company’s upcoming budget lineup has been the subject of numerous leaks, with one of the most recent ones revealing renders of the Moto E5 Plus. Now, however, tipster Andri Yatim has taken to Twitter with a variety of new details about the entire lineup.Kicking off the new Moto E5 series will be the budget Moto E5 Play, which is said to boast a regular 5.2-inch display with a 16:9 aspect ratio. Furthermore, the display will sport a resolution of 1280 × 720 pixels. In terms of internal details, the Moto E5 Play is listed as having 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage, while all of that hardware will be coupled with a large 4,000mAh battery. In addition, the device is set to feature a 12-megapixel rear camera that will be coupled with a front-facing 5-megapixel sensor. Launching alongside … [Read more...] about Motorola Moto E5’s Display, Storage, Camera Info Leaks
Tweet Reveals Huawei P20 Rumored Storage & Camera Info
March 1, 2018 - Written By Joshua Swingle A new tweet may have just revealed a number of important details regarding Huawei’s upcoming P20 lineup. Huawei has already confirmed that it’s new flagship line will be launching in Paris at the end of the month, March 27 more precisely. Though specs have not been confirmed yet by Huawei, a rumor has surfaced which talks about some of the phone’s storage and camera details. According to the rumor, the base model of Huawei’s regular P20 will come equipped with 32GB of storage, just like last year’s Huawei P10, although higher storage variants are expected to also be available.In terms of the camera, it has previously been reported that the device will sport a dual-camera setup and, according to the rumor, this will include a main 16-megapixel lens. Moving on to the more expensive Huawei P20 Plus, the Chinese company is said to have upped the minimum storage setup to 64GB, while the main camera sensor is set to … [Read more...] about Tweet Reveals Huawei P20 Rumored Storage & Camera Info
New Level 4 Local Guides for Google Maps will no longer receive free 100GB of Drive storage
Local Guides is a program by Google Maps in which you "help others explore the world and get great benefits in return" (Google's words, not mine). Well, it looks like those great benefits are about to become merely average benefits, as Google is completely ditching free Drive storage for new Level 4 Local Guides, who currently get 100GB for one year. This removal of free Drive storage as a reward follows a similar event from back in July of 2016, when the promo for new Level 4 Guides was slashed from 1TB for two years to 100GB for one year. When that happened, we assumed that Google Maps was having too many people reach Level 4 too quickly; the same thing is probably applicable here. Here's Google's explanation: As our global community of Local Guides continues to grow, we occasionally make changes to our program. We look forward to offering our most active and consistently-contributing Local Guides more features and perks throughout the year. Not all hope is lost, though; if … [Read more...] about New Level 4 Local Guides for Google Maps will no longer receive free 100GB of Drive storage