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YOU'LL NEED THIS EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE To store disk image/Windows backup USB STICK For bootable OS (System drives only) WITH THE RISE OF ONLINE APP suites and cloud storage, horrific [...]

American electronic producer Travis Stewart's Machinedrum alias has been pushing the boundaries of drum & bass for over 20 years, incorporating elements of glitch-hop, IDM, house, dubstep, jungle and juke, [...]

It's hard to believe when we look at our hard drives, full to the brim with algorithmic, plate, chamber, spring, and convolution plugin reverbs, that at one time if you [...]

What can you do to bring an old Mac back to life? Can you make it useful again? The answer is a definite 'possibly'. If the hard drive is failing, [...]

> In the rush to fill our hard drives with cutting-edge plugins and music-making tech, it's easy to dismiss the humble roots of sound design. Tape-splicing, rudimentary synthesiser chips and [...]

Reviews EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE ❘ £163 from Western Digital www.snipca.com/51838 Western Digital My Passport 6TB Mega store Western Digital has increased the capacity of its largest portable hard drives to [...]

Byline: Ben Rogerson New app is currently in beta and free to download Most DAW users tend to have a lot of projects on the go at once. Or, more [...]

MATT SAFFORD SCORE PRICE £136 (£163 inc VAT) from http://westerndigital.com After years of capacity stagnation at 5TB, Western Digital recently upped its top-capacity portable hard drives to 6TB. Here, I’m [...]

Some back-to-school purchases are no-brainers, like https://www.pcworld.com/article/557622/the-best-laptop-for-college.html. But other helpful products aren’t always as obvious. They can seem purely optional—stuff to buy when you have money to burn. But don’t [...]

Hard disk drives (HDDs) offer some of the best price-to-performance value when it comes to data, and that value goes even further with larger storage capacities. You’ll really feel the [...]

Beige box on its side. Massive matching monitor. CD-ROM drive and a floppy disk drive underneath. This itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny, off-white, boxy PC is a dead ringer for the first leftover [...]

When it comes to PCs, most users expect a reliable and lag-free experience. The boot up process takes only seconds, programs open almost without delay, and videos run smoothly. But [...]

Byline: Paul Thompson This spring, after Kendrick Lamar surfaced the long-subterranean ill will between himself and (https://www.vulture.com/tags/drake/) Drake on '(https://www.vulture.com/article/kendricks-like-that-verse-what-next-after-dissing-drake.html) Like That,' Drake responded with 'Push Ups,' its title a [...]

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BY GLENN FLEISHMAN HOW TO AVOID FORCE-EJECTING MOUNTED VOLUMES IN MACOS When using macOS, you certainly know if you’ve opened a Pages file or are editing an email. But below [...]

The cloud portal keeps you informed of all backup activity SCORE PRICE From £2,000 exc VAT from http://barraguard.co.uk Businesses worried about managing a hybrid data protection strategy may want to [...]

Planning to save your Outlook data on an external drive? Whether you are backing up your Outlook data, transferring your PST file to another computer, or simply creating space on [...]

Most people who use the Home Edition of Windows 10 and 11 are unlikely to be aware that their computer also comes with a Microsoft encryption tool. On many computers, […]

In the same way it's satisfying to slowly transform a pile of dirty dishes into clean ones or a level full of living Doom enemies into dead ones, I remember [...]

As enterprises begin to deploy and use AI, many realize they’ll need access to massive computing power and fast networking capabilities, but storage needs may be overlooked. Spinning up a [...]

As enterprises begin to deploy and use AI, many realize they’ll need access to massive computing power and fast networking capabilities, but storage needs may be overlooked. Spinning up a [...]

Byline: Mahua Roy Chowdhury, Jitendra Bohra The article discusses the judgment of the Delhi High Court in Seagate Technology LLC v. Daichi International, regarding the refurbishment and sale of HDDs. [...]

Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+ REVIEW FIELD TEST Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+ Add an extra connection to your small computer By Ben Everard NVMe storage is small, easy to use, and [...]

SCORE PRICE £374 (£449 inc VAT) from http://amazon.co.uk As its name suggests, the Flashstor 6 is an all-flash NAS enclosure, with space for up to six NVMe SSDs. It’s aimed [...]

SCORE PRICE £333 (£400 inc VAT) from http://morecoco.co.uk QNAP makes so many NAS enclosures that it can be hard to place specific models within the range. The TS-264 comes under [...]

Drives such as Asustor’s Nimbustor 4 and QNAP’s TS-264 include powerful CPUs How many bays do I need? We strongly advise you to steer clear of single-disk NAS systems. If [...]

Drummers across the world are running for the hills! That's because the world of computer music-making has never been in better shape when it comes to beat-craft, with software packages [...]

Byline: Wayne Williams Seagate's largest hard disk, the 25TB Exos X26z, is finally available to buy, but it doesn't work in Windows or macOS. We wrote about the Exos X26z, [...]

Byline: Sarah Chaney If your external hard drive isn't showing up on your computer, and you've got precious data you don't want to lose, here are a few easy solutions [...]

■ Clean the hardware. Keeping a desktop or laptop free of dust “improves airflow, which means less heat and stress on the components.” Regular cleaning will extend the machine’s life. [...]

The cloud is great for storing excess files that you can’t keep on your laptop. But it’s also a vulnerable online space and it’s possible your data could be hacked [...]

Byline: Ajay Amitabh Suman This decision acknowledges the necessity for a robust secondary market, allowing for the reuse and recycling of electronic components, while also protecting the rights and reputations [...]

Modern external computer data storage technologies (DAS, or Direct Attached Storage) run the gamut from USB hard drives, to optical discs (yes, still), to USB thumb drives, to the latest, [...]

https://www.pcworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/PC-ED-CHOICE.png At a glance Expert's Rating Pros * Super-low price per terabyte * Up to 24TB total capacity * Good looking * Twice as fast as 2.5-inch external HDDs Cons [...]

Seagate Technology (STX) announced its sustainability collaboration with e-commerce site eBay (EBAY). The agreement establishes Seagate's official storefront on eBay as a direct channel for consumers to access factory-recertified hard [...]

At a glance Expert's Rating Pros * Up to 6TB of capacity * Super-low price per terabyte * Good looking and portable Cons * Micro-B, not Type-C as intimated * [...]

At a glance Expert's Rating Pros * Attractive design for the price * Enjoyable keyboard * Lots of connectivity, including USB-C * 8GB of RAM and spacious 512GB hard drive [...]

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Workshops & Tips / Expert tips for every version Make Windows Better WINDOWS 11 Stop BitLocker encrypting your hard drive Computers that come with Windows 11 Pro include Microsoft’s BitLocker, [...]

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Your hard drive may not always perform well, and sudden disk errors or accidental deletion can cause you to lose data. But there’s no need to feel frustrated after losing [...]

Barclays downgraded Pure Storage to Equal Weight from Overweight with an unchanged price target of $51. The shares have meaningfully outperformed year-to-date, rallying 70%, creating a more balanced risk/reward, the [...]

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 [...]

Citi initiated coverage of Western Digital with a Buy rating and $90 price target. The analyst expects a clyclical recovery in the storage market. Following several quarters of storage digestion, [...]

Citi analyst Asiya Merchant initiated coverage of Seagate with a Buy rating and $110 price target. The analyst expects a clyclical recovery in the storage market. Following several quarters of [...]

Your computer is, in many ways, an extension of your life. So if you suddenly lose your hard drive due to an unexpected crash or damage, it can be devastating. [...]

Commenting on JE Cleantech's performance, Founder and CEO Ms. Hong Bee Yin said, 'We are pleased to turn in a positive performance in 2023, despite some headwinds in the form [...]

Byline: Rami Tabari Xbox is planning to delete game screenshots and clips on May 30, 2024. Here's how to save your game captures on OneDrive or an external hard drive. [...]

Reports Q1 revenue $9.63M vs.$11.5M last year. Reports continued strong demand for technology upgrades for hard disk drive HDD media resulted in sales of nearly $10M and gross margin approaching [...]

Raymond James downgraded Western Digital to Market Perform from Outperform without a price target. The analyst cites valuation for the downgrade. The shares are now discounting a 'reasonable recovery' in [...]