A few years back, buying an external hard drive meant buying an overpriced, loud, clunky housing, and then having to spring for a hard drive separately. It was, essentially, a pain. Even carrying it around was an annoyance, to some degree. These days, things have changed. Now the purchase of an external hard drive is [...]

Categories: Hardware

Some external hard drives make use of a hard coded sleep mode that kicks in after some time of inactivity, usually between 10-15 minutes. The external hard drive will enter sleep mode and initiate a wake up when new data is requested of the drive. This can be problematic in some circumstances where the user [...]

Categories: Software, Windows