The easiest way to add storage to your Mac is to buy an external hard drive. Once you have it, your first task is to pick a suitable file system for that drive depending on your intended usage. Using Apple’s free Disk Utility app, you can easily format the drive, give it a label, or […]
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Do you need to read a Mac drive on Windows? Unfortunately, it’s not a straightforward process; you can’t just connect the Mac drive and expect it to work. Here’s everything you need to know to get it working. Why Can’t Windows Read Mac Drives? Windows and macOS use different file systems. Windows uses the NTFS file […]
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When shopping for a new SSD or pre-built laptop, you may run into wildly different prices that don’t immediately make sense. For example, when shopping for refurbished MacBook Pros, “PCIe-based flash storage” costs more than just “Flash storage.” What you’re seeing are SATA and PCIe SSDs. One is technologically superior, but that doesn’t mean you […]
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Removable disk drives—either USB flash drives or external hard drives—should be easy to use. But in some cases, you may connect your drive to a Windows PC or another device with a USB port and find the hard drive isn’t showing up. This problem has several possible causes: partition issues on the external drive, using […]
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Don’t throw out that old hard drive from your computer! Yes, that’s even if you’ve got a fancy new solid state drive (SSD) or if your hard disk drive (HDD) finally gave up. Whether it’s functional or not, your old drive still has some cool uses. What you do with it depends on whether the […]
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An encrypted USB flash drive is the safest way to carry sensitive files. Unfortunately, you cannot password protect your entire USB flash drive, like you can password protect your PC or phone. Secure tools all work with encryption. Unless you want to invest in an encrypted flash drive with hardware encryption, you can use freeware […]
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