an external drive to recover with connotes a bootable drive, while a backup drive is just formatted partition(s). effectively, you need to build an OS disk with recovery tools, in order to have a ...

Congratulations on backing up your PC—but you aren’t as safe as you may think you are. Files on your backup drive can be just as vulnerable to disaster as files on your main system are. Most recently, ...

Q: What are your thoughts between an external backup drive and an online backup service for my data? A: In my more than 20 years of providing data recovery services, it’s obvious that there’s as much ...

Losing access to digital photos and documents can be life-altering, so having backups is crucial. VeraCrypt is a versatile encryption tool for creating secure backups on external drives. Safeguard ...

I have been trying to figure out how reliable and cost effective external hard drives would be as a viable back up media for small to mid size businesses. <BR><BR>I support about 20 small to mid size ...

You may have a few terabytes of space in your hard drive, but, that may not be enough. We need storage space for our work and personal files, our endless collection of images, and our software, apps, ...

This is the third post in a series of posts describing a variety of home backup strategies and options. Now things start to get more interesting and viable. External drive backup has been the primary ...

The one cheap storage upgrade your PC needs ...

External hard drives provide your business computers or networks with additional storage space for documents and other files, including backup software. If your drive has reached its limit, remove the ...

The best external SSDs offer a level of storage performance, read/write speed, and reliability that wasn't possible with older external hard drives. They're also lighter and much less susceptible to ...