Storage Archive
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, …
In a perfect world, your computer would have all the storage you could possibly need. But we don’t live in a perfect world, and even the beefiest PCs could use a hand with larger projects. A quality external hard drive gives you an easy way to expand your workstation’s capacity as needed. Not only that, but an external hard drive is more portable than carrying …
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 …
Some computer upgrades are easier than others. Upgrading your graphics card, for example, is quick and painless. Turn off your computer, unplug it, remove the old graphics card, pop in the new one, and restart. Wait a minute for the drivers to install, and you’re ready to rock. Upgrading your processor, on the other hand, can be a real nightmare. You have to carefully remove …
There are a million and one flash drives on the market today, and sometimes we never know which one to pick. Many of us use these “memory sticks” on a daily basis, and can be found carrying them around wherever we go. If we’re storing important information on them, then we really can’t afford a failure. Have you ever been caught in an unexpected downpour? …
