I’ve been arguing with people (besides my children) lately, this time about backup options. Primarily, some of the vendors of the new USB 2.0 hard drives are mad because I don’t think they make a good ...

USB flash drives are a cheap and convenient storage medium, but for a variety of reasons, are far from ideal for storing important data long-term.

I know some of the basic theory, I'm just wondering if anyone's actually had any experience with them? I have never seen such a product, but to be fair I haven't ever looked for one either. I see a ...

A lot of us use our USB thumb-drives (flash drives, data sticks, whatever you call them) as little repositories for our daily document work. We keep Word docs, text files, photos, and other daily data ...

In the continuing quest for the perfect small business backup product – one that works simply enough that busy, non-technical workers will actually use it and get the protection they need from it – ...

This issue is caused by Windows not recognizing USB drives as a valid backup location because earlier, they weren’t large enough to store system images. One good way to bypass the USB drive limitation ...

Now that your world has become increasingly digitalized – from photos and videos to music and podcasts to videogames and ebooks – it’s no surprise you’re running out of storage on your devices. How ...

If capacity and portability are your primary concerns, and the Backup Plus Portable fits up to 5TB in pretty much a standard 2.5-inch USB external package. It’s fast with large files, but on the slow ...

The Seagate Backup Plus Hub delivers a big bang for buck. Performance is very good for a USB hard drive, and you’d be hard put to find this kind of capacity elsewhere. So why on earth, in this day of ...