External hard drives back up your most important files, but what happens when they malfunction? Here's what to do if your ...

As anyone who’s experienced a hard drive failure can tell you, stuff goes wrong and computers aren’t perfect. Which leads us to an eternal truth: Backing up your data is a must. And the best way to do ...

The Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Most computers these days come with an internal SSD, which is ...

Remember when the cloud sounded like it’d fix all your storage problems forever? Bin your flash drives, frisbee your CDs into a skip, forget floppy disks – the cloud is here. Nope. Sorry. A physical ...

Backing up your data is important. Storing information in the cloud has become second nature to most, but there's still nothing like having everything saved on a physical device. External drives are ...