Dropped Portable Hard Drive
The most natural action after dropping an external hard drive or laptop, is to turn it on to see if it still works? If you are reading this post, there is a good chance that you had an external hard drive dropped and hit the floor, and after you powered it up it doesn’t work […]
SSD vs HDD
One of the most frequently asked questions from our clients is whether or not they should be using a solid-state drive, rather than the traditional hard drive disk. The reason for this question is primarily because SSDs have developed a reputation as being “superior” to traditional hard drives (HDDs), due to their lack of moving […]
What is inside a Hard Disk Drive?
For over 60 years, the hard disk drive (HDD) has played an important role in the modern era of digital technology. Storage capacity of the HDD has grown from a mere 5 MB in 1956 on fifty 24-inch disks to more than 10 TB (Tera Bytes) stored on three 5 1/2-inch diameter disks. During this […]
How hard drives read data
Ever wondered what actually reads your pictures, movies and documents from your hard drive? Well… many people falsely believe that data on a computer is actually stored in 1’s and 0’s, as it is often thought. But if your data is stored on a hard drive, which is usually the case (excluding SSD Drives), then […]
