I often hear these words from people who have just bought a NAS."Now my data is safe, right?"I understand that feeling well. I run a NAS with about 80TB at home, and seeing several disks spinning ...

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When your PC's operating system gets corrupted, or if an update fails, or a drive gets damaged, you need to be ready—or be prepared to spend a lot of time trying to get it back up running. Thankfully, ...

Every year, I receive many consultations about external hard drives that were working fine until yesterday, but do not appear when connected today. The drive cannot be found anywhere on the computer ...

Monica J. White is a journalist with over a decade of experience in covering technology. She built her first PC nearly 20 years ago, and she has since built and tested dozens of PCs. PC hardware is ...

Don't let your archived hard drives slowly die while they're in storage. A bit of planning to keep them healthy will go a long way.

Your PC won't interrupt you when something starts failing.

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If you want a full-fledged NAS, the Synology BeeStation Plus 8 TB is not for you. But if all you want is simple network ...

The spinning rust passed every test, but I still had reasons to replace it before trusting it with my media ...

Storage drives have a tendency to fail when you least expect it. A traditional hard drive may give you a warning with clicking or grinding sounds, but an SSD has no moving parts to make a fuss.

Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming hardware, she's covered just about everything. Whether it's ...