After weeks (if not months) of carefree photo and video shooting with your smartphone or digital camera, you decide to transfer your footage to your computer for further editing or backup purposes. You insert your memory card into the adapter, connect it to the laptop or PC, go to the default file manager on your […]
Also known as memory cards, SD cards are more resistant to physical damage than other external data storage devices. A memory card has a better chance of surviving extreme conditions like dust, water, shocks, and even drops from great heights than, for example, an HDD. Yet, you can face a corrupted SD card at any […]
Flash drives are popular data storage devices since they are easy to access from anywhere with a USB port. They are also small enough so you can carry them in your wallet. With a lot of write/erase cycles, flash drives offer a suitable solution for the temporary storage of information, such as that big work […]
When it comes to reliability and durability, it’s no secret why solid-state drives are increasingly bypassing traditional HDDs in popularity. Although it’s not impossible to encounter a few SSD problems, SSD failures are much more unlikely to happen when compared to HDDs. Unlike conventional hard disk drives, which are made up of fragile mechanical parts […]
There are several signs of hard disk drive (HDD) failure besides the evident ones like error screen and failure to boot. While they now boast larger storage capacities, more compact sizes, and faster speeds, hard drives still have a quite fragile design. This means that the possibility of breakage or malfunction increases in proportion to […]
A hard drive may produce natural sounds when you turn it on/off, and there is nothing to worry about. But when your hard drive beeps, that is a sign that something is wrong. A hard drive beeping is an alert for you to take action to protect your data and fix the problem before losing […]
Despite the numerous benefits of using alternatives to thumb drives — such as higher reliability and faster performance, as well as terabytes of additional storage space to use, — USB flash drives remain at the top of the most commonly used storage media these days. For they provide users with exceptional portability, allowing them to […]
In spite of the fast-paced world of technology being constantly improved and every now and then supplied with new methods of gathering, operating, and storing information — from refined solid-state drives and helium storage devices of today to DNA memory and quantum computing we’re about to see in the future, — everlasting hardware is yet […]
Corrupted file — damaged, unreadable, or the one refusing to open properly — is what nearly all of us had encountered in our user experience. And if before even a system reboot couldn’t always handle this type of problem, today we work with machines that are taught to find and correct errors on their own. […]
