Basics Archive

Hard Drive Making Noise In-depth Guide

Hard Drive Making Noise like Clicking, Grinding, and Squealing Could Mean a Dying Hard Drive Most of the time hard drives are silent but when few hard disks are turned off or being accessed they …

Here’s How External Storage Works on Xbox One

In the latest update of Xbox, One Microsoft introduced several new features like external storage support and Games with Gold, as well as using a real name on your Xbox Live. You can take advantage …

Terabytes, Gigabytes, & Petabytes: How Big are They?

Every computer owner has a question about data storage metrics like what is terabytes, gigabytes, petabytes, megabytes, etc. We know these terms commonly, but we might not know how many gigabytes are in a terabyte? …

How Much Memory Does My Computer Have?

Sometimes consumers get confused with KBs, MBs, GBs and all other memory stuff. Storage space in computing is very important and let’s discuss the memory in your computer. How Much Memory Does My Computer Have? …

An Explanation of Read and Write Speeds

Read write speeds determines the performance of storage drives. Either it’s external hard drive, thumb drive, SSD drive, storage area network speed matters. Read and Write Speeds Reading means the time to access certain data …

What Is a Serial ATA(SATA) Cable and Drive

SATA stands for Serial Advanced Technology Attachment(ATA), is an IDE standard which gets released first in 2001 for connecting devices like hard drives, motherboards, and optical drives. This term basically refers to the different types …

Screen-sporting LaCie DJI Copilot hard drive

Photographers and videographers can use the Lacie DJI Copilot drive that comes with built-in screen for backing up media without a computer. This hard drive can copy files from your memory cars or USB devices …

Buffalo Launches New USB 2.0 Hard Drives

Buffalo technology is proud to announce the new storage with the DriveStation of external hard drives. This hard drives comes in different capacities like 80GB (HD-HB80U2), 120GB (HD-HB120U2), 160GB (HD-HB160U2) and 250GB (HD-HB250U2). This hard …