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Most modern computers no longer come with optical disc readers like CD or DVD drives, but the market for external CD/DVD drives is still going strong.

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In the streaming era, relying on cloud storage for your files is just fine, but it can be better (and less costly in the long run) to use physical storage. If you're young and agile, with an unknown ...

A portable SSD and an external hard drive are both widely used forms of external storage, but they solve different problems depending on how files are handled in daily use. In this portable storage ...

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It is often thought that "a cheap 3,000 yen external DVD drive is good enough, they are all the same." However, when ripping ...

macOS 28 won’t mount your encrypted Mac OS Extended (HFS+) drive. Got an old encrypted hard drive in a drawer? Apple just put a deadline on it. With the upcoming macOS 28 update, your Mac will ...

Safely removing external drives before removing them might sound like old-school advice, but it's still important to keep ...