Often switch between a Mac and PC? Want to use one USB flash storage device for both? The thing is that by default, these platforms use different file systems – discs are formatted differently. Windows uses NTFS, and Mac OS uses HFS, these file systems are not compatible with each other. However there is a…
If you’re like most people, you probably take your computer for granted. You switch it on, start working, and assume that everything is going to work the way it always has. But what if something goes wrong? What if your computer crashes and all your files are gone? If that happens, you’ll have to start…
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The first brands that come to mind when speaking of portable, or any other hard drives, are Western Digital and Seagate, who have dominated the HDD market for years now. However, a company that is less known in the field of hard disk drive technologies may have created the best portable hard drive for your…
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Portable hard drives are becoming more and more appealing as we grow more dependent on our data. Having it backed up in a secure hard drive that you can always have with you makes using and sharing your documents, photos etc. very easy. This is where Western Digital’s My Passport comes in, as it has…
Looking for the best hard drive 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch enclosure? Enclosures are a great way to use your Internal hard drive as an external. Do you need a portable hard drive with features that external hard drives don’t have? Got a spare internal hard drive and want to put it to good use cheaply? Don’t…
The latest trend in laptop storage is M.2 SSDs, which provide similar speeds to SATA SSDs but take up much less space. Although 2.5-inch SATA SSDs might be the thing of the past in a few years, some manufacturers still introduce new 2.5-inch SSD models. One such model is the Western Digital 3D NAND SSD,…
You may have heard it from a co-worker or friend. It may have been a recent headline or a link you found during a web search. Regardless of how you found it, you stumbled across a site proclaiming the advantages of downloading more RAM. If you aren’t sure what RAM is but it sounds like…
Western Digital announced a new hard drive to their WD Gold line of enterprise hard drives. The new WD Gold 10TB (WD101KRYZ) is mainly built for modern storage systems. New WD Gold features high-capacity HelioSeal helium technology, power efficient enterprise datacenter environments. [amazonjs asin=”B01IWCMS5M” locale=”US” title=”Western Digital Gold 10TB Datacenter Hard Disk Drive Class SATA…
[amazonjs asin=”B00DBA1VYU” locale=”US” title=”Apple Time Capsule 2TB and 3TB 5th Generation”] Convenient solutions for comfortable data managing and saving space are incredibly important in a modern household. This is what Apple’s AirPort Time Capsule excels at by combining a powerful WiFi router with a network-based storage device. But is it as good as it seems?…