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Best external hard drives
By Nick Evanson last updated
TB on the go Grab one of the best external hard drives to increase your storage space or backup your PC.
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Microsoft's recyclobot uses machine learning and computer vision to open and recycle 90% of hard drive components
By Nick Evanson published
news Beats smashing them up with a big hammer, though it's not quite as therapeutic.
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Millions of perfectly fine HDDs are shredded each year because of 'zero risk' security policies. Spoiler alert: There's still a risk of stolen data from just a 3mm scrap
By Katie Wickens published
news There are better, safer, greener ways to deal with old hard drives.
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Hard drives predicted to be history after 2028
By Jeremy Laird published
News Just five years until the very last HDD is sold.
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Seagate agrees to pay US gov $300m for selling Huawei some hard drives
By Jacob Ridley published
News Seagate holds it did nothing wrong, but would rather give the gov $15m/quarter for the next five years than fight the case.
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Bring that retro hard drive clicking sound back into your life with this little device
By Katie Wickens published
news Fancy a little retro PC ASMR?
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Seagate's Into the Spider-Verse styled portable HDDs are stunning
By Hope Corrigan published
news Anyone can wear the mask.
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The surprising bit about hard drive shipments being down 35% in a year is that it's not by more
By Alan Dexter published
News Desktop PC drives still account for a surprising chunk of that storage though.
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