Whether you copy your entire computer, or just the most important files, it's essential to have your data backed up.

Still booting from a hard drive ... and drives and SSDs of all sorts. I have been a technology journalist for 30-plus years and have covered just about every kind of computer gear—from the ...

The primary computer storage medium until the turn of the century when solid state drives began replacing them. Hard disks emerged in corporate datacenters in the late 1960s and began to flourish ...