Before flash drives and SSDs, storage came in giant cabinets with swappable packs. Here's what was inside, and why it took up so much space.

External hard drives can be moved between systems, reformatted at will, and repurposed without risking the data or stability ...

I recently recommended that a customer use an external hard drive as a backup device when they remarked, “You know, I don’t think I really know what a hard drive is. What is a computer ‘drive,’ anyway ...