“You say potato, I say po-tah-toe” might be true for root vegetables, but in the world of drives, little differences can be significant. Take, for instance, a flash drive versus a portable USB drive. Some people use these terms interchangeably, but that’s not quite correct. A “flash drive” is SSD (Solid State Drive) technology, which …
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If your drawer is spilling over with old, outdated USB drives, you should know two things: 1. You’re a hoarder, and there’s help out there just for you. 2. Those USB drives are still useful! Here are five hacks you can use to breathe life back into your old USB drives. 1. Store a backup …
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Looking for the coolest flash drives? There are so many options in cool USB drives – the sky is the limit! We sell dozens of models from sophisticated metallic drives and classy natural wood drives to the really wild styles that grab attention wherever they go. Here is our Top Ten List of the coolest …
Kids these days are more connected than ever to computers and the Internet at large. Grades and assignments can be accessed online and children are increasingly doing their homework at home on their computer. But how do they get those assignments to school? Printing out homework is becoming more passé these days, especially in the …
If you’re in the business of bringing in business to your company, then you probably already know the often challenging demands of putting together a response to a Request for Proposal, or RFP. Usually, these requests are very exacting and require a lot of information to be shared with the organization issuing it. They are …
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As the storage available on USB thumb drives continues to increase exponentially (256 Gig drives were released late in 2010), new uses for these portable media wonders are coming online nearly every day. Following are some of the creative uses people and businesses are finding for their drives: Crime Fighting Microsoft has developed COFEE for …
If you did a double take at the headline, you’re not alone. The good news is that after years of having our favorite storage and sharing formats – floppies, Zip drives and CDs – go the way of the Dodo (or Zune), flash drives are here to stay and so are thumb drives. In case …
Those who are privy to sensitive information are increasingly using flash drives as a mobile storage device. This can include lists of informants carried by the police, credit card numbers, government data – the list goes on. While flash drives offer businessmen and government officials unparalleled mobility, it has also increased worries that this information …
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Few people in the U.S. or even abroad live in a disaster-free zone. In the West, there are earthquakes and wildfires. In the Midwest, it’s tornados and flash floods as well as epic winter storms. In the East, it’s Nor’easters and hurricanes. There’s really a disaster waiting in the wings for nearly everyone, waiting to …