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Don't throw away your old hard drives—do this instead

You might think that hard drives have a shelf life—and that’s partially the case. However, an old hard drive probably has a ...
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The Ghosts of Your Files Haunt Old, Erased Hard Drives. Here’s How to Exorcise Them.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Your old solid state drive (SSD) has a lot of files on it that you probably don't want ending up in a ...
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7 storage drives that are officially too old for 2026

MiniDiscs were small, cartridge-based magneto-optical discs, primarily made for audio. Sony made these smaller discs in the ...
PC World

I finally replaced my PC hard drive with an SSD and you should, too

It’s always a strange moment saying goodbye to a technology you’ve used forever, and I now find myself waving farewell to another one: the humble spinning-platter hard drive. Sure, I’ve been using ...
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5 Ways You Can Speed Up Your Old Computer's Storage

Don't you hate it when you're in a hurry and you have to wait ages for Windows to start up? Or maybe you have to print a file quickly, you open it, and nothing happens? Your old computer's storage is ...
PC World

7 clever ways to use your old USB flash drives

If you’re like me, you’ve accumulated a lot of USB flash drives over the years, to the point where most of them are sitting unused and in storage. But recently I’ve come to realize that an old flash ...