Here’s how to format a hard drive (Legal Stuff: We are not responsible for any damages, lost data, or anything of the sort)… If you have a computer, you surely know what a hard drive is. If you don’t have one, or simply don’t know what a hard drive is, then this article will begin [...]

You may ask, isn’t tape an anachronism in the age of optical disks, removable hard drives and a plethora of whiz-bang, random-access storage media? In many ways it is, but because of the nature of backup it doesn’t really matter that tape is slow and sequential-access. Remember, tape is cheap. Businesses use tape because they [...]

Much has been written about solid state disks (SSDs) becoming the next big thing1 in the IT industry(1). But as to whether or not we have enough knowledge of how it will revolutionize the industry is a different question. How much do we really know about SSDs? If we are to ask people on the [...]