If opting for the best SSD leaves you intimidated by the notion of installing the device, external drives are a great alternative, as well as a good backup source to keep your most precious data ...

The single biggest problem with hard drives is that they are much more vulnerable to physical damage due to their use of mechanical parts. If one were to drop a laptop with an HDD, there is a high ...

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Google Drive is an immensely popular cloud storage service, and one of the most generous free tools on the market. It’s powerful and easy to use, but learning how to use Google Drive can be ...

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Let's look more specifically at what drives the price of gold. Investors have long been enamored by gold, and the price of the metal has increased substantially over the past 50 years. Not only ...

The WD My Passport, Works with USB-C is now available at the highest capacity (6TB) of any pocketable, spinning hard drive on the market today. Despite its name, it connects via a USB Micro-B port ...

The best external hard drives (and SSDs) are basically a must-buy for all PC and Mac users. Given the ever-increasing size of all file types — from photos and movies, to apps and games ...

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Solid-state drives (SSDs) have fewer moving parts than traditional hard drives, and they offer the speediest access to your data. Unlike a conventional disk-based hard drive, which stores data on ...