Storage Archive
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? …
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 …
When we need to physically move data between computers, most of us turn to our trusty flash drive. When you’re looking to add some internal storage to your home computer, you’re likely to purchase a solid-state drive. It’s well known that solid state drives provide better reliability and faster transfer rates than any other storage technology on the market. In fact, USB flash drives and …
There’s no doubt that flash technology has come a long way, but hard drives are still the king of bulk storage. USB flash drives are usually slower and much lower capacity than their internal counterparts, and nobody has time to wait for 20GB of data to write to a Blu-Ray disk. If you want to move hundreds of gigs of data, or simply access something …
If you’re managing a fleet of computers, you might find that you’re copying the same data a lot. For example, you might have a standard image for hundreds of employees or students. In that case, installing via disc is a complicated, time-consuming process. Much better just to duplicate the same hard drive. Duplication, often called cloning, is the process of directly copying an entire drive …
