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Samsung's 950 Pro M.2 SSD pairs NVMe with V-NAND for eye-popping performance Based on Samsung’s V-NAND technology and available in 512GB and 256GB capacities, the 950 Pro shuns the common 2.5-inch form factor and SATA interface for cutting-edge M.2 2280 and PCIe 3.0 x4. It also makes use of the Non-Volatile Memory Host Controller Interface, better known as NVMe. … In the case of the 512GB Samsung 950 Pro, the combination of NVMe, speedy V-NAND chips, and a triple core, eight-channel UBX controller has resulted in some eye-popping performance. Sequential read speeds top out at 2500MB/s, while sequential writes hit 1500MB/s.
The single most important thing to upgrade in your PC is your hard drive — those old spinning hard drives are just so slow in comparison to everything else inside the computer. If you have a computer with a spinning hard drive, you might be lucky to get 40-50 MB/s, but upgrading to an SSD will give you a 10x performance increase. And upgrading to one of these new PCIe (PCI Express) drives will take that from 50 all the way up to 2500. That’s 50x faster! (Of course these are rough numbers and the performance will vary depending on what you are doing, but no matter which way you slice it, these drives are insanely fast). It’s worth noting that the latest 2015 MacBook Pro incorporates the same type of storage with nearly the same speeds, based on benchmarks that we’ve seen. There’s a reason that Macs are always more expensive, and that’s one of them. There are definitely a few PC laptops that also use PCIe, although it’s usually an extra option that costs a lot more, bringing the price in line with a comparable Mac. Should you upgrade today though? Unless you’ve got money burning a hole in your pocket, you might want to just wait a little for the prices to come down. Official Gmail Blog: Stay in control with Block and Unsubscribe Sometimes you get mail from someone who's really disruptive. Hopefully it doesn't happen often—but when it does, you should be able to say, "Never see messages from this person again." That's why you can now block specific email addresses in Gmail—starting today on the web, and over the next week on Android. Future mail will go to the spam folder (and you can always unblock in Settings).
It’s absolutely amazing that it has taken so long for Gmail to add a feature to just completely block emails from a particular person. Sure, you could do it with filters and send the emails to the trash, but that’s not really good enough. At least they finally added it. The Unsubscribe feature has actually been around for a while, but it looks like they are just now adding it to the mobile apps as well. The only problem is that sometimes it doesn’t work correctly — we’ve had a bunch of complaints from readers saying they unsubscribed using Gmail but we never received an unsubscribe request. Hopefully the problems get resolved with that. The Ethical Ad Blocker When a user blocks ads, they hurt the publications that provide the content the user wants by denying them their income. They are (sort of) stealing content.
Fortunately I’ve developed a simple solution. The Ethical Ad Blocker is a Chrome extension that, when it detects advertising on a website, blocks the entire website. This way, the user doesn’t experience ads, but they also don’t leech free content.
This is, of course, a joke. It’s a real extension that basically blocks the entire web, because almost the entire web is based on providing free content in exchange for people seeing ads. The reality is that even before the problems surrounding adblocking, the business of ads on the web has been changing dramatically and banner ads don’t pay out nearly as much as they used to, which is one of the reasons why sites (even ours) have had to resort to using more ads than they would prefer to use. We’ve tried to make sure that our mobile site is as clean as possible so we don’t waste our readers time and bandwidth — you have to pay for mobile data, after all — but we have more ads on our desktop site than we’d like. Advertisers demand more return for their money and they want to make sure that they are reaching the people that they want to reach, and only those people. Unlike TV ads, which have no way to click or interact, on the web the advertisers can measure every detail from how long the ad is actually in view, to whether you prefer Microsoft to Apple. The sky is the limit on what technology can do, and most advertisers only want to buy ads on the big exchanges operated by Google and others. So there’s no premium, tracker-less ads or site sponsorships to be had for most sites. Publishers are left with only one option: using ads from the exchanges for the bulk of their traffic. The Future is Still Bright We’re actively working on a solution to the problem, and whether that means premium subscriptions for additional content or paid sponsorships and sponsored articles, we’re going to figure out a way to make money that doesn’t include regular ads, and hopefully doesn’t include ads that include trackers. That’s easier said than done, of course, because the entire web is built on ad exchanges that include some level of tracking code. Or really, to be more clear, everything on the web is tracking you somehow — Facebook just announced that they are using data from the Like buttons on every website to target ads for their advertisers. We have a lot of good ideas, and while it might take a long time, we’re going to attempt to move in that direction. At the very least, we’ll try to reduce the number of ads we have on our site over the next year or two. Of course, we’re still not terribly happy about all of the ad blocking going on. Sure, a small percentage of people are blocking ads because they are legitimately worried about malvertising or tracking, but the vast majority of people just don’t feel like seeing ads, and just don’t care that the articles that they read are paid for by the ads they are blocking. We’ve repeatedly told people that the solution to malvertising is disabling plugins and using anti-exploit software, and of course you can just clean out your cookies if you want to stop tracking. But that doesn’t matter, because people just want to block ads. Hey, we understand. Ads are terrible. | 
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