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3 reasons why you need an external USB hard drive

Posted on August 14, 2023

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External hard drives used to be expensive luxuries that transferred data between the PC and the drive at a relative snail’s pace.

But thankfully, that has all changed thanks to the proliferation of incredibly fast, yet very inexpensive external USB hard drives.

In fact, prices have now dropped to where you can pick one up starting at around $50.

I now believe that every computer user should own at least one external USB hard drive, for the following reasons: [Read more…]

Q&A: Do SSDs need to be backed up like hard drives?

Posted on August 2, 2023

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Question from Brenda: I took my Acer laptop in to Best Buy after the hard drive crashed and they installed a 1TB SSD.

I can’t believe how much faster the computer runs now!

Luckily I had a backup when the hard drive crashed. I was reading an article today that said SSDs don’t break because they have no moving parts, therefore you don’t really need to back them up.

Is that true? [Read more…]

Why I use VaultPress to back up my WordPress blogs

Posted on July 26, 2023

Do you run a WordPress blog?

If so, you’ve probably spent a lot of time thinking about what would happen if your blog got hacked or your server’s hard drive crashed?

I know I have, and it isn’t a very pleasant thing to think about.

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How to quickly fix a WordPress blog that was broken by a ‘bad’ plugin

Posted on June 7, 2023

If you have a WordPress blog, chances are you will install a new plugin or update an existing one that “breaks” your blog at some point.

Trust me, it happens to most every blogger at one time or another.

I remember the first time it happened to me…

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Q&A: Can I put more than one System Image Backup on the same drive?

Posted on January 12, 2023

Question from Juliene: Hello, Rick. I’m a long time reader of your blog and I’ve read your posts about making System Image backups with Windows.

Your instructions are very good and easy to follow.

I’ve made three backups so far for my laptop but I just noticed that there’s only one backup on my external hard drive. I’m assuming it’s the last one I made?

My question is can I store more than one backup on the same drive? [Read more…]