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> Restore archives to a new drive The old USB hard drive with my archives on it is failing. How can I recover the contents of its last backup to [...]

Some of my fondest memories as a kid are of camping in the mountains of Northern California with my family. Dad making campfires, going hiking, canoeing, falling overboard, and generally [...]

Restore archives to a new drive Q The old USB hard drive with my archives on it is failing. How can I recover the contents of its last backup to [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Efosa Udinmwen Thousands of high-mileage Seagate HDDs flood the market, with buyers unknowingly purchasing drives used in Chia mining farms as brand new. * Seagate denies involvement in fraudulent [...]

Does Windows 11 have a cloning tool? The answer is no! Windows 11 doesn’t offer any built-in cloning feature. Fortunately, EaseUS Software offers Windows 11 hard drive cloning software and [...]

There’s no escape. Artificial intelligence is creeping into Windows, and with it comes increased OS storage requirements. For a long time, the minimum storage spec for Windows 11 was 64GB. [...]

A growing number of buyers have reported purchasing supposedly new Seagate data center-grade hard drives, only to discover that they had been previously used for thousands of hours. A recent [...]

A growing number of buyers have reported purchasing supposedly new Seagate data center-grade hard drives, only to discover that they had been previously used for thousands of hours. A recent [...]

If I were presented with the opportunity to purchase and place into my disk drive a very obviously cursed CD from 1995 I would simply not do so. This is, [...]

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BY CHRIS BARYLICK There’s something to be said for customization and control of a backup application, and while Apple’s free Time Machine feature is terrific at automatically sending backups to [...]

WORKINGMAC ChronoSync: A Mac backup option with a justified fan base A Mac backup option that gives complete control without overwhelming users. BY CHRIS BARYLICK There’s something to be said [...]

Byline: Efosa Udinmwen Seagate STKP28000400 28TB HDD combines massive storage capacity with USB-A and USB-C connectivity. * STKP28000400 is a 28TB desktop hard drive from Seagate's popular Expansion family * [...]

IN THIS ISSUE / News Court rejects man’s claim to recover £598m Bitcoin hard drive A judge has dismissed a man’s attempt to sue Newport City Council to recover a [...]

Byline: Umar Shakir Xbox has a new beta software update (https://support.xbox.com/en-us/help/hardware-network/xbox-insider-release-notes/console/alpha-skip-ahead/2025/01/alpha-skip-ahead-2502-250120-2200) rolling out today for Insiders in the Alpha Skip-Ahead ring that enables Series X and S systems to support [...]

A UK High Court judge has dismissed a man's attempt to sue Newport council over a long-lost hard drive containing Bitcoin, which should be the full stop on a rather [...]

James Howells discarded a hard drive containing 8,000 bitcoins in 2013. He has been fighting for access to a local landfill to search for it for a decade. This week, [...]

Byline: Shubha Mitra Joining hands with distributors like ACRO, KBC, and TAG to tap businesses and clients throughout the country, ADATA eyes to a new horizon in its India business. [...]

Key Highlights: * Transcend Information, Inc. has launched a new enterprise-grade 2.5 GB hard drive, the ETD210T, designed for reading-intensive work in enterprises. * The ETD210T uses enterprise-grade TLC (eTLC) [...]

With a newly installed Windows PC, only a few system services and programs start. The resource requirements are correspondingly low and the operating system responds quickly. This changes over time, [...]

Byline: Noel Murray In Silo's first episode, we were introduced to the idea of 'relics' - those little pieces of technology or art from the preapocalypse world sold illegally on [...]

Byline: Efosa Udinmwen Threat actors are increasingly using virtual hard drive files in phishing attacks to deliver malware. * Virtual hard drives are being abused in phishing campaigns, experts warn [...]

Key Highlights: * EonStor GS 5000U is a high-performance unified storage solution with 2U and 24U.2 NVMe SSD inlets. * Three GS 5000U appliances and three JBs 3090 4U 90-bay [...]

Byline: Benedict Collins IBM is developing and innovating the future of quantum, with the big breakthroughs expected in 2030. Quantum is the next logical step in the evolution of computing, [...]

In This Issue / PUBLISHER'S LETTER PORTRAITS OF THE PRESENT, INTENDED FOR THE FUTURE B. ERIC RHOADS Chairman/Publisher (mailto:bericrhoads@gmail.com) bericrhoads@gmail.com http://facebook.com/eric.rhoads @ericrhoads Digital photography has changed our world, and especially [...]

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, [...]

When an SSD, hard drive, or old notebook is sold, people usually delete their personal files beforehand. However, many users do not realize that the hard drive often still contains [...]

Portable apps are applications and tools that can be started directly and without prior installation. The advantage of this is that the programs are immediately ready for use and can [...]

When an SSD, hard drive, or old notebook is sold, people usually delete their personal files beforehand. However, many users do not realize that the hard drive often still contains [...]

COVER FEATURE Why You MUST Buy… EXTERNAL DRIVES Portable storage has never been faster, smaller or cheaper. Robert Irvine reveals the best things you can do with an external HDD, [...]

IN THIS ISSUE / WELCOME From the Editor Daniel Booth (mailto:editor@computeractive.co.uk) editor@computeractive.co.uk I’ve just stuffed all my external drives into one trouser pocket. That’s four USB sticks, two hard-disk drives [...]

Key Highlights: * PROMISE Technology's VTrak J5960 features GreenBoost technology, reducing operational costs and environmental impact while maintaining high performance levels. * Enabling GreenBoost Technology in the VTrak J5960 can [...]

Clonezilla Live 3.2, the latest version of the free and open source disk cloning tool developed by Steven Shiau, is now available. This Debian-based, bootable system enables users to clone [...]

BY JON JACOBI Let’s face it: External portable HDDs such as the WD My Passport Ultra for Mac offer slow speeds by today’s SSD standards. That said, they still provide […]

MACUSER / MacUser Reviews / HARD DRIVE WD MY PASSPORT ULTRA FOR MAC: BOATLOADS OF SPACE AT A NICE PRICE BY JON JACOBI Let’s face it: External portable HDDs such [...]

Barclays analyst Tom O'Malley raised the firm's price target on Western Digital to $90 from $80 and keeps an Overweight rating on the shares. The company's results and guidance missed [...]

Reports Q1 revenue $4.1B, consensus $4.12B. 'Western Digital's performance in the fiscal first quarter demonstrates our commitment to operational excellence and disciplined capital investment as our focus on lasting quality [...]

If you don’t routinely back up your data and have lost essential files from an external hard drive, https://www.easeus.com/resource/restore-data-from-external-hard-drive.html can be challenging. External hard disk data recovery can be more [...]

Key Highlights: * The game is designed to be compatible with Android operating systems and is available in HD HDR, HDTV, 5G, and 16GB HD. * There is a 30% [...]

Morgan Stanley calls hard disk drives, or HDDs, the 'healthiest end market we cover' and believes that capacity growth plus relative pricing strength will drive margin upside compared to consensus [...]

Byline: Max Slater-Robins If you've been looking at getting the world's biggest hard drives for cheap, maybe think again. Anyone who has tried to find the best hard drives at [...]

Byline: Matt Mullen Our monthly round-up of free plugins continues with a healthy selection of software instruments and effects processors Everybody loves a free plugin. From bedroom beatmakers to professional [...]

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BY CHRIS BARYLICK Sometimes an app can take care of the big-picture items but shoot itself in both feet by forgoing the smaller things. This is the case with ESET [...]

Byline: Ashley Bardhan I hope you like low resolution Console modder and YouTuber Jon Bringus figured out how to play Valve's early development hero shooter Deadlock on PS4. Achieving this [...]

Key Highlights: * Company announced the new industrial-grade PCIe M.2 22110 solid state hard drive. * The hard drive has a capacity of up to 4TB. * Designed for high-reliability [...]

Byline: Wayne Williams Tech giant wants to stop rare materials being wasted In a bid to cut e-waste, Microsoft is employing AI-powered robots to streamline the disposal of old data [...]