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by Patrick Chiang · Posted 09/06/2017
When buying a desktop computer, how much thought do you put into its storage capacity? How much do you think you can store, and how long can get by with just a 1TB hard drive? At first, it always seems plenty, but once we start saving photos, videos, movies, games, and more, we find ourselves in a predicament. There’s still so much Internet and life we want to download and keep, but that red bar slowly creeping to the edge has got us all feeling anxious. Most people opt for an external storage solution, which is important for backups, but what
by Tim Chan · Posted 07/17/2017
WD has recently redesigned the My Passport Ultra external hard drives with metal and matte finishes in black and gray or white and gold, to match your sense of style. The My Passport Ultra comes in 1TB, 2TB, 3TB, and 4TB capacities and interfaces with desktops, tablets, and notebooks via a USB 3.0 cable. The 1TB and 2TB options allow ample room for storing photos, music, and files, while 3TB and 4TB units are well suited for storing
by Patrick Chiang · Posted 08/29/2016
When you’re planning on buying a high-priced item, or any product, in fact, think of the time you’ve spent researching it before fully committing. How long did you spend? An hour? A day? Or even a week? To ensure we get the best we can for our money, we visit message boards, ask friends, and read reviews; however, not everything you hear or read is true. Therefore, to save you from the disappointment, as well as some money along the way, here are some misconceptions and myths about hard drives—and the truth behind them.
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by Patrick Chiang · Posted 08/26/2016
Storage is a tricky problem, and one we encounter frequently in all aspects of our lives. We’ve dealt with it when we’re figuring out which container to use for storing leftovers, or picking out an adequately sized suitcase for travel, and even shopping for the perfect pair of jeans to fit our extra-large phones. Each of these tasks requires some thought and foresight that affects what we choose to be our vessel. Therefore, why not apply it when we buy storage drives? A generic hard drive might be sufficient for everything across the board,
by Stephen Janiszak · Posted 08/26/2016
Combine portability with accessibility using the My Passport Wireless Pro USB 3.0 External Hard Drive from Western Digital. With this mobile hard drive, you can not only store your important files and take them with you, but you can also make those files accessible to others via a dedicated Wi-Fi connection or through the built-in USB port. The My Passport Wireless Pro comes in
by John-Paul Pale… · Posted 08/24/2016
At its most basic, a Network Attached Storage device (NAS) is a single or multi-bay system that is able to share files among multiple systems, whether over a wired or wireless network connection. While most NAS devices are used largely for storage and sharing files, their capabilities stretch far beyond. A NAS may also be used as a multimedia server via UPnP and DLNA protocols to share and stream audio, video, and photos to gaming consoles, tablets, phones, and other computers, as well as be configured as FTP, web, email, surveillance, and
by Stephen Janiszak · Posted 10/27/2015
You purchase a shiny new smartphone or tablet and right away, you start downloading app after app, game after game, your entire music library, movies, and videos, and soon receive that dreaded message, “Memory Full” or “Out of Storage Space” or “Hey, You Stop Downloading all versions of Angry Birds.” Most mobile devices have a storage capacity ranging from 8GB to 32GB—and as every user soon finds out, what isn’t eaten up by internal software needs or bloatware is soon loaded like a baked potato. To avoid crises, most tablets (*ahem* iPad *ahem
by Cris Silvestri · Posted 06/17/2015
When you bring up a discussion about servers and server environments at hip cocktail parties, you’ll find that many guests vacate the room—and that the only ones left are IT people who got invited through a friend of a friend. But that’s not fair, because if more people stayed and listened to a techie evangelize about server structures, they may find that there are a lot more applications to new server options. They may also
by Lawrence Neves · Posted 07/31/2014
Streaming media players are a dime a dozen these days, and with good cause. Consumers are always looking for a way to cut back on the expensive cable TV packages that plague most middle-income families. Cord cutting is not a new concept – it’s been around in various forms and formats for years – but it has captured a lot of press lately, especially when surrounded by a nimbus of attention-grabbing headlines like the ones that were garnered by the Aereo TV defeat in Supreme Court (for the uninitiated, Aereo TV offered streaming broadcasts of “
by Lawrence Neves · Posted 11/15/2012
Tablets may seem like a fad to power PC users, but their success last year has turned heads in the industry. Tablets are not only here to stay, they’re commanding far more interest from consumers than was previously thought. Although Apple’s iPad still reigns in the tablet market, many princes have come forward to try and claim the throne. Some of those smaller fiefdoms, like ASUS and Samsung, are more than trying to unseat Apple—they’re playing musical chairs with the throne, and gaining market share at an amazing rate.
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by Sam Mallery · Posted 08/23/2012
I recently tested two new Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M5 notebook computers: the 14” M5-481T-6670 and the 15.6” M5-581T-6490. These laptops are officially classified as Ultrabooks—a new category of powerful computers that strive to be as thin and lightweight as possible—but just think of the M5
by Christopher Wi… · Posted 06/25/2012
In the days when film was the dominant medium in photography, everyone had tangible prints made from nearly every roll of film they shot, in order to choose which to keep and which to toss. Nowadays, we will sometimes make this decision within seconds of taking a photo and previewing it on a 2- or 3-inch screen. Then we either shoot it again or move on. We’ve all been guilty, at least once, of using our camera’s memory card like a time capsule: capturing more and more photos of different places and events, but never storing, backing up
by Michael Antonoff · Posted 05/02/2012
There are obvious reasons to choose a dedicated camcorder as a gift for Mother’s Day. For starters, it won’t ring in the middle of video recording. Next, the better camcorders contain an optical zoom lens that doesn’t degrade the picture resolution during close-ups, the way digital zoom does. Equally important is the fact that many camcorders have optical image stabilization that helps keep the shot steady, even when recording one-handed from a moving car, skateboard or the like. Additionally, some have innovative features like