Storage Archive
Without a hard drive duplicator, transferring data from one drive to another becomes a chore. You need to connect both drives to the same PC, and use dedicated software to copy the drives. This can be time consuming. If you work with many computers, a duplicator is an essential tool in your kit. It makes copying dozens or hundreds of drives a breeze. Imaging becomes …
Creating your own Blu-ray discs is a fairly straightforward and easy task, but determining the best discs to burn to can be a whole different story. Whether you’re backing up important documents or creating and copying movies, Blu-ray technology offers one of the best ways to save your important data on physical media. Rather than saving to a cloud server or backing up to an …
Dropping your drive will be totally fatal for almost any HHD. SSDs are slightly more durable because they lack moving mechanical parts. When you wrap them up in an enclosure, they can become even better protected. The right enclosure can provide protection that’s on par with the shell of a laptop. You just have to know how to choose the right enclosure. Not only in …
On many modern PCs, optical drives have become an afterthought. In a lot of ways, this makes sense. People used to burn files to CDs and DVDs for backups and transfer. However, most people now use flash drives for transfer, and external hard drives for backups. As a result, many newer PCs and Macs don’t even have an optical drive at all. For most people, …
Have you got a box of old floppies kicking around? They might contain old documents, images from an early digital camera, or maybe even some classic games that you’d like to fire up on an emulator. Believe it or not, it wasn’t that long ago that floppies were considered the best way to store data. In fact, less than five years ago new desktop PCs …