I recently recommended that a customer use an external hard drive as a backup device when they remarked, “You know, I don’t think I really know what a hard drive is. What is a computer ‘drive,’ anyway ...

No one expects their computer to crash or be destroyed, but it happens. Maybe the water heater breaks and floods your office, or perhaps it gets infected with a virus, or even worse. A wrong click on ...

External hard drives can be moved between systems, reformatted at will, and repurposed without risking the data or stability of a primary computer.