That USB port on your router isn’t decorative.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Flash drives can deliver high storage capacities in form factors that feel impossible, and it's a game-changer for expansion.

This issue is caused by Windows not recognizing USB drives as a valid backup location because earlier, they weren’t large enough to store system images. One good way to bypass the USB drive limitation ...

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 - ...