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Windows: I recently had a suspicion that something was up with my hard drive. Spending a little time to figure out what was going on — and to confirm nothing bad was actually happening — saved me $500+, or the cost of the shiny new 2TB SSD I was contemplating…
Researchers at the Netherland’s Radboud University have uncovered serious security issues with several solid-state drives that use hardware-based encryption—vulnerabilities. This could allow an attacker to access a drive’s “encrypted” contents without needing the password that decrypts it.
While cloud storage has put a huge dent in the need for small storage devices to act as a kind of sneaker-net, there’s still a place for external storage devices. When it comes to remote backups or moving large volumes of data, external hard drives are still very useful. With…
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