I’ve always been a music fan. As far back as I can remember, we had classical music playing in our house, which no doubt was the beginning. That and the closet full of LPs (okay, vinyl) that my dad dragged home from a flea market when I was eight years old. I’d write...
Without a doubt, the two storage technologies that dominate the market today are hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs). But what’s the difference between HDD and SSD? Which one should you use to back up your files? What about photos and videos? ...
I recently played remote tech support for someone whose laptop hung up during a software installation. It seemed that the file system was corrupted, but it was hard to tell. I’m not a tech support person, but I can fill in occasionally, summoning patience with the...
Lately, I’ve been asked quite often about the key differentiators between the legacy ioSafe 1517 NAS and the newer 1019+ NAS. Throughout this review, I’ll delve deeper into their specific capabilities, why the 1019+ adds value to our client’s...
As a Customer Support Technician for hard drive tool technologies, I’m often approached by customers asking: “How long will my external hard drive last?” And then the follow-up, “When will a hard drive failure happen?” or “When can a hard drive be expected to fail?”...
On Data Privacy Day 2020, Facebook launched a new privacy control tool for users called Off-Facebook Activity. Much like perusing your Google activity, it puts the spotlight on what data points Facebook gathers about you and which companies use this data to show...
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