In 2015, Google Photos was the hero we all needed. They promised us free, unlimited storage for every photo and video, a digital Fort Knox for our memories. It was perfect: My entire life's photo ...

Want to move your OS from an HDD to an SSD or copy data to a different drive? Here's how to do it safely. Palash has been writing about technology (and entertainment) for over a decade. His focus has ...

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Go to the Plex home page and create a free account. Once your account is created, navigate to the Plex Media Server download page. Next, download and run the executable file. Go through the setup ...

Computers hold a wealth of data, but one mishap can result in the loss of years’ worth of photos, documents, and more. Be sure to have a backup plan in place in case disaster strikes your device by ...

Microsoft is automatically turning on OneDrive Backup in new Windows 11 installations. Your files aren't stolen -- they've just been moved to a new folder and synced to the cloud. This article ...

You can format an external drive quickly and easily in Windows, without the need of any third-party tools. But before you format your USB drive, you need to consider which file system to use. File ...

If you've backed up your iPhone photos to iCloud, you're already doing better than most people. Keeping an online backup of your photos means it's easy to retrieve them if something happens to your ...

The current generation of games is infamous for the large file size that takes up a major chunk of your console storage all for themselves. So, having the best PS5 external hard drive has become ...

Mac users relying on Time Machine went through a rough transition a few years ago when Apple migrated away from its long-used HFS+ format for encoding hard drives and SSDs to the modern, more capable, ...

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There's one immutable law of PCs: sh*t happens. And when it does, there's usually a way to fix things, if you had the foresight to create one essential recovery tool first. Booting from a USB recovery ...