The stress of finals is enough to drive just about anyone to their limit. When the woes of technological breakdowns compound that stress — as the campus saw when a Trunk service disruption brought ...

You’ll want to regularly remove dust and dirt from the ventilation slots. You should also avoid overloading your housing with too many components and monitor the temperature of the hard drive ...

1] Disconnect and reconnect the drive The first thing you should do if an external drive keeps freezing whenever in use is reconnect the drive. Sometimes, the issue can be just a glitch, and ...

I knew better. I vowed to do routine backups after my last hard-drive failure. It didn't take long, however, to fall off the backup wagon. The process was difficult and time-consuming.

That's a huge convenience if your hard drive crashes after you've made an image of your drive. The free program ( www.hdclone.com ) is limited in both features and speed.