(2) A magnetic disk drive that plugs into a USB port on a computer. Used for transport as well as backup and additional storage, portable hard drives rival the capacity of many internal hard drives.

Portable hard drives are versatile in that they not only allow you to back up important business information such as clients, reports and tax information, they are mobile and can be used any time and ...

Remember when floppy disks were cutting edge? These days, 1.44 megabytes of memory might not even be enough to store one high-resolution compressed image, much less an entire album of digital photos.

Over the last few years, much of the enterprise storage market has focused on flash technology, but the hard disk drive (HDD) format has plenty of life in it yet. It is true that flash storage offers ...

Computer folks often throw around words, terms and acronyms assuming everyone else knows what they mean. I recently learned that’s a bad assumption, though, as a customer discussing backing up files ...