Let's face it, after a few years, your once trusty laptop begins to show signs of age. Soon sluggish speeds and frustrating ...

If you need to expand your Mac storage in a big way without breaking the bank, your best bet is with external hard drives.

A simple, relatable explainer of hard disk drives, using gramophones and floppy disks to show how HDDs store data, why they ...

Solid-state drives have quietly become the default storage in laptops, desktops, and consoles, yet the way they work means everyday habits can wear them down faster than most people realize. Instead ...

Decision support queries that scan large indexes can suffer significant degradation in I/O performance due to index fragmentation. DBAs rely on rules of thumb that use index size and fragmentation ...

Abstract: One of the main obstacles to efficient resource usage under dynamic traffic in elastic optical networks (EONs) is spectrum fragmentation (SF), leading to blocking of incoming service ...

Abstract: This paper evaluates Spatial Division Multiplexing in Elastic Optical Network (SDM-EON) defragmentation scenarios and applies a combined push-pull and fast-switching defragmentation ...

I t's a lot easier to take care of a PC than it used to be. I'm old enough to remember DOS, and often, just getting PC games ...