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Modern computer hardware is generally more reliable than what we had back in the early days of personal computing, but users still frequently lose irreplaceable data due to hardware failures.
There are many reasons for data loss that range all the way from the simple failure of a hard drive to catastrophic events such as lightning strikes or fire damage. [Read more…]
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Question from Michael: I have a three year old laptop that runs a bit on the warm side. It always has, ever since I first took it out of the box.
I read your post about replacing a hard drive with an SSD and I’d love to replace the existing 1TB hard drive in this laptop with a 1TB SSD.
The thing is I’m afraid it will cause the laptop to overheat since it’s getting really warm already. Do you think it might? [Read more…]
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Question from Rod: My friend and I were discussing the advancements that have been made in technology when an interesting question came to mind.
Are the fastest hard drives made today still slower than the slowest SSDs?
I say no, but my friend says yes. [Read more…]
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Most people use their computers day in and day out, and chances are you do as well.
Do you ever think about what would happen if a hard drive crash or other disaster wiped away all of their precious files?
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Question from Barbara: Rick, my two year old laptop wouldn’t come on the other day so I took it to the Geek Squad to have it checked out.
Long story short, they said the motherboard was bad and that it wasn’t worth fixing, so I bought a new laptop.
The problem is I have literally thousands of photos on the dead laptop’s hard drive that I desperately want to get off of it and onto my new Laptop. [Read more…]