Finding an online backup service isn't always easy. As a matter of fact it's almost insanely hard to find a company that do exactly what they say they'll do. There are a lot of them out...
RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks or Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks - kinda depends on who you ask. The term RAID came into being in 1988 after it was defined in the University of California, Berkeley....
Tape data drives have been around for a very long time. Almost as long as computers have existed in fact. Tape backup technology itself is quite basic. Data tape drives and their media operate on...
Floppy disks are one of the oldest forms of data storage they are not however THE oldest data storage device. For the purpose of this article we're only going to look at relatively modern...
IDE stands for Integrated Drive Electronics and is an established standard for connecting hard drives or CD-ROM drives in home computers. IDE was and is part of the ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment) standard which encompased the IDE, E-IDE, ATAPI and...
The Iomega Zip drive. Any computer fan who has ever used one will repeat the name with a smile. When the Zip drive first burst onto the computer scene in 90s it caused a real...
USB stands for Universal Serial Bus which is a type of interface or connection on your home computer (PC or Mac). USB was originally designed to allow multiple external devices to be connected to a computer...
The launch of CD-ROM drives for home computers saw the beginning of a revolution in computer history - multimedia. You were no longer confined to looking at blocky graphics and computer generated sounds. Digital...