Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

A lot of us use our USB thumb-drives (flash drives, data sticks, whatever you call them) as little repositories for our daily document work. We keep Word docs, text files, photos, and other daily data ...

an external drive to recover with connotes a bootable drive, while a backup drive is just formatted partition(s). effectively, you need to build an OS disk with recovery tools, in order to have a ...

This $75 USB drive is faster than a SATA SSD (And fits in your pocket) ...

This is the third post in a series of posts describing a variety of home backup strategies and options. Now things start to get more interesting and viable. External drive backup has been the primary ...

I know some of the basic theory, I'm just wondering if anyone's actually had any experience with them? I have never seen such a product, but to be fair I haven't ever looked for one either. I see a ...

Congratulations on backing up your PC—but you aren’t as safe as you may think you are. Files on your backup drive can be just as vulnerable to disaster as files on your main system are. Most recently, ...

After a while, messages, pictures and videos from your iPhone can consume hundreds of megabytes, or even gigabytes, of storage space. Whenever you back up your iPhone to your business PC with iTunes - ...