hard-drive
What is the Best Way to Clone a Hard Drive?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed One of our Lockergnome users recently asked the community what the best method of cloning a hard drive is. For a Mac, you can use Carbon Copy Cloner, which is free and simple. You already know that performing regular backups can [...]
World’s Slimmest 1TB Portable Hard Drive
How’s this for lightweight and data dense: This new 1TB GoFlex will use a new 2.5-inch drive with 2 platters — each at 500GB — to maintain a 9.5mm Z-height (the same height and depth as GoFlex ultra-portable drives at 640GB and below. The “slim” ultra-portable device also reaches a new areal density or per-platter [...]
When Your Hard Drive Dies
You could hold a memorial service and give your dead hard drive a proper burial in your junk drawer, but Lifehacker has rounded up a few more interesting options for using your dead hard drive. There are suggestions for everything from a magnetic knife holder to a laser light show. I’m partial to my Tix [...]
What is the Size of Your Largest Hard Drive?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed What’s the biggest hard drive you have in your possession right now? Which single hard drive in your home has the largest capacity? I happen to have a 3 TB drive here, sent to me as a review unit by Seagate. [...]
Are Solid State Drives Better Than Traditional Hard Drives?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Over on our popular questions and answers site, bcgocubs asked how a computer will benefit when using an SSD. Also, they would like to know what everyone’s general opinions are regarding solid state drives vs traditional hard drives. A traditional hard [...]
How to Flex Your External Hard Drive Options
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed This ultra-portable hard drive doesn’t have a USB port nor a Firewire port, an eSata port or any other sort of port. The issue with external hard drives is that they have one type of port or another. When a new [...]
My First Hard Drive Was…
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Headwards is a user on our Lockergnome.net site who asked what capacity our first hard drive was. My first computer didn’t even have a hard drive in it! The first one I purchased with my own money cost me around $200.00 [...]
We Haven’t Forgotten Windows 7
Last week, we posted an offer to our readers about a security encryption program, SafeBit. There was a forty percent reduction to their usual price for the people who frequent these pages. Our write-up can be found here. Because of very bad timing and the issue with coordinating over many different time zones, we learned [...]
How to Protect Your Hard Drive
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed There are thousands upon thousands of hard drive enclosures. However, only one of them is both fireproof and waterproof. I have precious video files from the Gnomedex conference on my ioSafe Solo. For the purpose of this video, I completely submerged [...]
How to Re-Partition a Hard Drive
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Warren has done a couple of screencasts for our channels over the past weeks, and has done a very good job with them. In this one, he’s going to show you how to re-petition your hard drive. Keep in mind that [...]
Should You Create a Partition?
It is surprising how strongly some people feel about the issue of partitioning or not. Voices are raised – faces become a bit redder – language becomes a bit more colorful. If you are from the school of thought that partitioning is absolutely not necessary, please leave a comment at the bottom of the page. [...]
What’s the Best Hard Drive Enclosure to Buy?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed A few days ago, I heard whimpering from my closet. I thought one of the dogs had been stuck inside there. Low and behold, it was an old hard drive whining to be used once again. However, I needed an enclosure [...]
How to Speed Up Your PC
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed PCPitstop is one of those resources you need, but don’t realize it until you need it! These guys have been around for nearly a decade now, and their reputation is rock-solid. They have a feature called “Ask an Expert” – and [...]
Are SSDs Good for Gaming?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed No, there’s nothing wrong with this video or your computer! I was just being my usual dorky self. You know, your computer can run that fast if you have the right hardware. There will always be slow components, of course – [...]
Protecting Yourself from a Hard Drive Disaster
This can happen to anyone. Unfortunately, it happened to a long time Lockergnome chatroom visitor, Catherine (aka ‘Noggie’). I’m sure many of you have seen her in the room. Without any warning whatsoever, her healthy hard drive stopped working. Upon reboot, the operating system could not be initiated. Everything was gone. Fortunately, Catherine did have [...]
