Articles tagged "storing data"

The Basics of A Computer Backup

How Do I Back Up My Computer? Though most modern computers are fairly reliable, an unexpected accident or malfunction could result in lost data — childhood photos, irreplaceable school work, and important business files, all gone without warning. Fortunately, it’s easy to mitigate a data-loss disaster. All you have to do is regularly back up […]

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What Is an External Hard Drive?

Most internal hard drives offer between 120 gigabytes (GB) to 2 terabytes (TB) of storage space. A single photo taken by an iPhone 4 takes up 2 megabytes (MB) of storage, and a 10-minute high-definition video can require up to several hundred megabytes of storage space. Add together all the photos and videos from your […]

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