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How to Remove a USB Drive Safely

August 8, 2026

Nowadays, almost anything you attach to your computer is connected via a USB port. And next to printers, the items most frequently connected via a USB port are external drives – typically external hard drives (HDDs), external solid state drives (SSDs), or flash drives (sometimes called memory sticks or USB sticks). The “plug and play” […]

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Your Next Computer Should Have a Solid State Drive

February 11, 2025

Ever since personal computers first became widely used in the 1980s, their primary storage medium has been the conventional hard disk drive (HDD). Over the succeeding decades, HDDs continued to boast ever increasing capacity, speed and reliability, even as their prices kept dropping. Consider that for much of the 1980s the cost of a then