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Hard drives and solid state drives are used in technology to help store and retrieve data. Discover what you need and how to use or troubleshoot yours. How to Choose an External Hard Drive How to Fix a USB Drive Not Showing Up Can I Use Two Hard Drives in One Computer? How to Wipe a Hard Drive on a Dead Computer What Is the C Drive on a Computer? Grab Daily Computer & Tech News Subscribe to Tech Today Subscribe How to Check Storage Space on a Flash Drive External Hard Drive vs. Flash Drive: What’s the Difference? How to Access Data From an Old Hard Drive How to Know If You Have an SSD or HDD Hard Drive How to Format an SSD How to Back Up a Computer to an External Hard Drive How to Compare Processors How to Overclock RAM How to Fix it When A New Hard Drive Is Not Showing Up in Windows How to Install a Second SSD exFAT vs. NTFS How to Use an External Drive With a Chromebook HDD vs SSD Storage How to Install an SSD in Your Laptop What Is an External Hard Drive? What Is a CPU? (Central Processing Unit) What Is a Solid State Drive (SSD)? How the M.2 SSD Will Make Your PC Even Faster CMOS: What It Is and What It's For eMMC vs. SSD Advantages and Disadvantages of SSHDs (Solid State Hybrid Drives) Everything You Need to Know About Computer Hardware What Is RAM? (Random Access Memory or Main Memory) What Is a Hard Disk Drive? How to Install an SSD in Your Computer What Is a Wireless Hard Drive? How to Select the Right USB Flash Drive What Is a Floppy Disk Drive? What Is SATA Express? What Is a NAS (Network Attached Storage) Device? What Is File Allocation Table (FAT)? What to Do When Your Hard Drive Is Making Noise PCIe vs. SATA SSDs How Do I Replace a Hard Drive? Installing a Serial ATA Hard Drive What Is a Hard Drive Activity Light? (HDD LED) What Is a Data Sanitization Method? (Data Wipe Methods) How to Choose an SSD, Hybrid, or Hard Disk Drive How to Make an Internal Hard Drive External What Is Seek Time? (Definition of an HDD's Seek Time) How to Use the Format Command to Write Zeros to a Hard Drive What Is File Storage Encryption? What Is a Sector? (Disk Sector Definition) HDDErase v4.0 Free Data Wipe Software Program 21 Things You Didn't Know About Hard Drives How to Locate and Recover Data From Bad Sectors 3 100% Effective Ways to Completely Erase a Hard Drive Samsung HUTIL v2.10 Review: Free Hard Drive Test Tool Why Advertised Storage Does Not Match Real Data Capacity Volume Boot Record Definition (Partition Boot Sector) Should APFS Be Used on All Disk Types? What Does Corrupt File Mean? How to Wipe a Hard Drive Frequently Asked Questions About USB Flash Drives

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