Sometimes you may want to use data from a hard drive that is stored in a file system that isn’t compatible with your computer. I have encountered this problem when I moved from Mac to PC and again when I moved to Linux. The last thing you want to do is format the drive and …
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Occasionally I click on the “This PC” Icon in my folder and am greeted with red lines indicating that my hard drives are nearly full, So I think to myself, time to buy another hard drive, but how many can more can I cram in there? Most Desktop PC motherboards are equipped with 4 ports …
When thinking about the long term storage of data there are a few things to consider. Some of them might surprise you and some of them are so obvious you may have even overlooked them! In theory, an SSD will outlast an HDD but it depends on a variety of factors such as the physical …
In my spare time, I like to make music, and I have some high powered speaker monitors on my desk… I was looking at them thinking about the magnets inside when it occurred to me maybe I should move the stack of hard drives on my desk away a little bit! It begs the question …
Modern videos games are enormous. Gone are the days where an entire AAA game would only take up 2GB of hard disk space (and some of us remember when games used to fit on floppy disks). With games like Red Dead Redemption 2 stealing upwards of 150GB of our precious disk space, using an external …
If you have ever read one of our articles before you have seen the words BACK UP in capital letters at some point. While it is always worthwhile sometimes it’s inconvenient which raises the question, can you use your computer while you are cloning the master drive? It is possible to use a computer while …
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There are so many acronyms when it comes to computing that sometimes it can all get a bit confusing, some of them are easy enough to figure out like HDD (hard disk drive) Some are a little bit harder like BBS… BBS stands for BIOS Boot Specification. It is a standardized boot process that directs …
There are a few reasons to want to do this, either a hard drive upgrade, a new shiny ps5 replacing the ps4 or perhaps the dreaded blue light of death, whatever your reason it is possible… The PS4 uses a 2.5″ disk drive that can be removed from the console and used as an external …
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You may have noticed that some hard drives come with a power adapter while others don’t which begs the question do hard drives need power? Hard drives require power to operate, depending on the type of drive an HDD requires either 5v or 12v. %v can be supplied through USB while hard drives that need …
In spy films the idea of wiping a hard drive usually ends with the drive letting out a puff of smoke as it self-destructs, the reality of wiping a hard drive is not so dramatic. Yes. Wiping a hard drive essentially means that data is removed and is completely unretrievable. This can be done in …
Hard drives seem to be one of the components of a computer that are most likely to fail on you at some point, leaving you wondering why? and what can you do about it? Hard drives are mechanical devices with moving parts which makes them subject to more points of failure than other computer components. …
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The first time I built a PC I wanted the top graphics card, the problem was I only had a limited budget so I started to wonder where I could cut corners in order to get the GPU I desired. The first thing I looked at was the hard drive. The thought occurred to me …
