Storage

Dropbox for iOS gains bulk renaming of photos, offline folders & recent save locations

Christian Zibreg ∙ December 15, 2016

Popular cloud-storage service Dropbox has refreshed its iPhone and iPad application on the App Store with three new features: bulk-renaming of photos, offline folders and recent save locations. In addition, the company announced a major infrastructure push enabling faster sync speeds thanks to several new proxy servers established across the globe, including accelerators in California, Texas, Virginia, New York, Washington, the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong.

Google Drive becomes Android migration tool with contacts, photos, videos & calendar sync

Christian Zibreg ∙ December 15, 2016

Google wants to make it even easier for Apple fans to switch from iOS to the Android platform so it's turning the mobile Google Drive app into a migration tool of sorts with new features that let you upload and synchronize your contacts, photos, videos and calendar events.

The search giant also provides a Quick Switch Adapter with its Pixel smartphones that allows users to quickly transfers data directly from an iPhone to their Pixel phone.

Google Drive is available at no charge from the App Store.

OWC’s ThunderBay 4 mini is now available with up to 40TB SSD storage

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated October 17, 2018

Other World Computing (OWC) expanded its ThunderBay lineup of storage devices with the introduction of the speedy ThunderBay mini 4 portable SSD storage with RAID 5 two years ago. Recently, OWC introduced its highest capacity and fastest desktop SSD configurations yet by adding 10, 20, 30 and 40TB SSDs to the ThunerBay mini 4.

How to show the storage drive icon on your Mac desktop

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated June 28, 2025

Learn how to show device icons for the internal startup drive, storage devices, volumes, and partitions on your Mac's desktop for quick access to the files within.

SSD in the new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar can’t be upgraded

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated December 27, 2023

After seeing in iFixit's teardown that the base model of the new 2016 MacBook Pro without the Touch Bar had a removable PCIe SSD storage unit, many were excited at the possibility of aftermarket upgrade parts across the new MacBook Pro lineup.

But new images surfacing on the web this week after the first MacBook Pro with Touch Bar units began reaching the hands of buyers are showing that the Touch Bar models don't follow suit and have SSD storage chips soldered into their logic boards instead.

Spotify to fix a bug in desktop app causing massive data writes that could reduce SSD lifespan

Christian Zibreg ∙ November 11, 2016

Spotify's desktop app for Mac, Windows and Linux has been found to be continuously writing massive amounts of data to local storage for no apparent reason—even when the app is simply sitting idle. As noted in Spotify's support forum, on Reddit and elsewhere, users are seeing the desktop app write tens of gigabytes of data to local storage every minute or so. On systems outfitted with SSDs like most Macs, excessive data writes can reduce the lifetime of flash storage.

That's because SSDs have a finite amount of write capacity and are prone to wear and tear. A Spotify spokesperson told ArsTechnica that a fix was underway via an update that's being rolled out as we speak.

iFixit tears down the 2016 MacBook Pro base model

Anthony Bouchard ∙ November 1, 2016

iFixit officially got its hands on the 2016 MacBook Pro without the Touch Bar at the top of the keyboard, and their team has already completed one of the detailed teardowns the firm is known for.

The new MacBook Pro appears to contain a lot of new tech, highlighting large advancements in Apple's pro notebook lineup.

Tip: save space on iPhone 7 Plus by turning off depth of field photo duplicates

Christian Zibreg ∙ October 26, 2016

iOS provides a Portrait mode in the stock Camera app to owners of the dual-camera iPhone 7 Plus.

As you know, Portrait mode lets you take dramatic DSLR-like depth of field photographs where the camera automatically creates a beautifully blurred background while keeping the subject in the front sharp and in full focus.

Your iPhone 7 plus defaults to saving both the original twelve-megapixel photo and its depth of field counterpart, effectively doubling storage requirements for Portrait shots.

In this quick tutorial we're going to show you how you can easily disable photo duplicates for depth of field photos with just a few taps.

Benchmarks reveal how higher capacity iPhone 7 units can be faster

Anthony Bouchard ∙ October 18, 2016

When you go to get your new iPhone every year, do you get the higher-capacity handset to have the best of the best, or do you get the lower capacity handset to save some dime?

If you typically pick the latter choice, you might want to re-think your decision for the iPhone 7 & 7 Plus.

How to use the Optimized Storage feature on your Mac

Timothy Reavis ∙ Updated February 2, 2024

In this tutorial, we will show you how to use the Optimized Storage recommendations on your Mac, which will free up space on your computer by removing unwanted files or moving infrequently used files to the cloud.

iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus tech specs

Anthony Bouchard ∙ September 8, 2016

The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus are Apple's latest and greatest handsets that will be going on pre-order Friday, September 9th, and will be available for official purchase starting on September 16th.

Of course, before you go out and buy something new, it's always great to do a little research on the hardware specs. In this piece, we'll recap the specs of both Apple's iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus.