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Viki Sandoval

Viki Sandoval writes the Storage section, which covers drives, memory, cards, and the slow business of not losing things. Most storage writing is either a specification recital or a scare story about failure rates, and neither helps much when the real question is whether a six year old drive is still worth trusting. The approach here is to explain how the hardware wears, what the warning signs look like before a failure becomes total, and what a backup does and does not protect against. Figures carry their standard revision and year, because a transfer speed quoted without its interface version is close to meaningless.

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