Tag: EXTERNALHARDDRIVE

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One of the curses of HD DVRs is that, when recording HD video, they fill up terribly quickly. But, depending on your cable or satellite provider, and the model of box you have (check with your provider), you can quickly and cheaply upgrade your capacity. First, get hold of a completely empty SATA USB hard drive. Unplug the power cord of your set-top box, plug in the drive (the bigger the better), ...

If you use huge media files for audio, video, and photo-editing apps, then you've experienced the annoyance of having your PC slow to a crawl whenever you're performing processor-intensive tasks. The best workaround is to store those huge files on a speedy, secondary hard drive, whether internal or external. Doing so preemptively clears up the bottleneck that occurs when your main hard drive has ...

For those of us with tons of photos, movies, music and video games glomming up our computer's processing speed, external hard drives can certainly be a godsend. And recently, Fujitsu unveiled what it is calling the "world's largest external mobile hard drive," which clocks in at whopping 300-gigabytes (GB). This little powerhouse features the option to password lock selected items (or everything ...