Category: Storage

Apr 25, 2023

What’s Eating Up All Your Hard Drive Space?

We tend not to be concerned about the available space for our storage devices until there is very little left.

Feb 16, 2023

Monster External Drive Capacity from Western Digital

Bigger is not necessarily better. The Verge reports that Western Digital announced new capacity for its My Book external drives.

Feb 07, 2023

Western Digital Dropping Support for Discovery Desktop App

A lot of users have external hard drives to backup their computers or add needed storage. Western Digital (WD) makes

Feb 02, 2023

Should You Defrag Your Solid State Drive?

We are all interested in increasing the performance of our computers. One method is to speed up the retrieval of

Sep 28, 2022

Speed Up Your SSD in Windows 11

Solid State Drives (SSD) are pretty much standard storage devices for modern computers. You do still find some spinning hard

Jun 09, 2022

Microsoft Pushing to Require SSDs for PCs

Solid state drives are faster than hard drives with spinning disks. Is speed a reason Microsoft is pushing computer manufacturers

Jun 02, 2022

Best Flash Drives for 2022

USB flash drives are the modern day replacement for floppies and optical discs. That’s a good thing since flash drives

Mar 31, 2022

Happy World Backup Day!

Let’s face it. There is a holiday defined for every day of the year. Some days have the luxury of

Mar 16, 2022

Best Free Cloud Storage Providers

Everybody likes free. Cloud storage is no exception. How-To Geek has a post to help you choose which free cloud

Feb 24, 2022

Change a Drive Letter in Windows 10 and 11

When you connect an external storage device to a computer, it gets assigned a drive letter. Typically, the assigned letter

Feb 01, 2022

Windows 11 – BitLocker to Go

Need to protect your devices at rest? Encryption is your friend. Microsoft has provided encryption capabilities in Windows 7, Windows

Jan 11, 2022

Beware Unexpected USB Flash Drives

It’s an oldie but a goodie. Beware the postman bearing gifts. Bleeping Computer has a warning from the FBI to