How to truly erase data from USB flash drives
A USB stick is a smart tool for anyone who needs to move large amounts of information between two different computers — or take a lot of files with them when travelling. It’s simple to…
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Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying
Enlarge / Hard drives, unfortunately, tend to die not with a spectacular and sparkly bang, but with a head-is-stuck whimper. Getty Images One of the things enterprise storage and destruction company Iron Mountain does is…
Windows can finally make fatter FAT32 drives, up to 2TB in size
Yesterday, Microsoft sent out a new preview version of Windows 11 to Windows Insiders, and it holds an interesting change: the max size limit on FAT32 partitions is being bumped up to 2TB. FAT32 is…
How to automate cloning your drives on a Mac
What if something goes wrong and you need immediate access on-site to a full backup of your Mac’s startup volume or an external drive, and you need to return to work as soon as possible?…
Best external hard drives for Mac 2024
It’s never been easy to upgrade the storage in Macs, so it’s always a good idea to buy an external drive to provide extra storage for all your work files, photos, videos, and games. And,…
WD’s mobile hard drives now come in 6 TB flavors
Hard drives. They still exist, believe it or not, and they’re still the best bang-for-your-buck when it comes to absolutely massive amounts of storage. Take three new offerings from Western Digital for example. While these…
Best external SSD for gaming 2024: Portable performance drives
Maybe your gaming laptop doesn’t have enough storage. Or you simply want an easy way to make your game library portable. An external SSD can fix both of these issues (and more) by providing an…
How to manage Time Machine backups between APFS and HFS+ drives
Apple introduced the APFS (Apple Filing System) file system protocol in macOS Sierra. It’s now the required format for macOS, but it took a while to transition from the former implementation of the HFS+ (Hierarchical…
Best external drives 2024: Reviews and buying advice
External USB/Thunderbolt drives are a super-convenient way to quickly back up your important files, as well as store any data that you don’t need on your computer’s internal storage. They’re also an extremely handy way…
New Docker Malware Steals CPU for Crypto & Drives Fake Website Traffic
?Jan 18, 2024?NewsroomServer Security / Cryptocurrency Vulnerable Docker services are being targeted by a novel campaign in which the threat actors are deploying XMRig cryptocurrency miner as well as the 9Hits Viewer software as part…