You can use external hard drives to back up critical business data or add additional storage to a workstation. However, because external storage devices can cost hundreds of dollars, you can reduce ...

What to do with the old hard drive you just removed from your laptop or desktop? You could just keep it around as a spare—but installing it into an external ...

So you’ve finally decided to swap that 1TB hard drive for a 500GB SSD, in order to benefit from the SSD’s faster read/write speeds. But what are you going to do with that old hard drive loaded up with ...

Using an external hard drive is a great way to back up what’s most important to you while retaining full access to your data. They're a good way to augment your existinginternal drive storage, and ...

I wanted to do something with an old SSD stick from a laptop upgrade that was lying around. A good way to salvage such working, reasonably reliable storage devices is to convert them using cheap, ...

Buying an external hard drive is one of the best decisions a PC or Mac user can make. It gives you the option of backing up your data in a form factor that detaches from the machine, allowing you to ...

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Earlier this year, I wrote several guides to boost the speeds of older Macs by swapping their internal hard drives for super-fast solid state drives (SSDs). As readers have confirmed, their older ...

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