Newsletter Archives

• Do external hard drives make sense in the cloud-storage era?

  Posted on March 7, 2022 at 02:44 CST by Fred Langa • Comment in the Forums

  LANGALIST

  

  By Fred Langa

  With effectively infinite storage available online, is there any point to storing files and backups locally, on external hard drives? A subscriber’s question prompts today’s first item.

  The second item looks at a PC electrical glitch. A subscriber has a battery-backed uninterruptible power supply and an emergency generator. Trouble is, they won’t work with each other! Here’s what’s probably going on, and how to correct it.

  Last, you’ll see ways to connect to an unknown, potentially compromised, public USB charging port — without risking your device’s data!

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 19.10.0 (2022-03-07).

  AskWoody Plus Newsletter, LangaList AskWoody Plus Newsletter, LangaList, Power, storage, USB Charging

• What’s a NAS, and do I need one?

  Posted on October 25, 2021 at 02:45 CDT by Richard Hay • Comment in the Forums

  ISSUE 18.41 • 2021-10-25

  HARDWARE

  

  By Richard Hay

  If I were writing this to a group of aviators in the United States Navy, they would immediately respond by saying a NAS is a Naval Air Station. However, this article is not about a location where planes and helicopters take off and land.

  For this article, NAS stands for network-attached storage.

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.41.0 (2021-10-25).
  This story also appears in the AskWoody Free Newsletter 18.41.F (2021-10-25).

  AskWoody FREE Newsletter, AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Hardware AskWoody Plus Newsletter, hardware, Network, storage

• Terabyte update 2021

  Posted on June 14, 2021 at 02:45 CDT by Will Fastie • Comment in the Forums

  ISSUE 18.22 • 2021-06-14

  HARDWARE

  

  By Will Fastie

  The price of storage is in flux for a variety of reasons, making predictions extremely difficult.

  In my previous article on this subject about a year ago (AskWoody 17.21.0), I wrote an expanded version of an article I have been writing on my personal site for a number of years. The article attempted to illustrate the difference in price between hard disk drives (HDD, rotating magnetic discs) and solid-state drives (SSD, flash memory). The goal was to establish that HDD had a significant price advantage over SSD; over the period of time covered, SSDs were small, very expensive, and primarily used as small boot drives in PCs needing high performance.

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.22.0 (2021-06-14).
  This story also appears in the AskWoody Free Newsletter 18.22.F (2021-06-14).

  AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Hardware AskWoody Plus Newsletter, hardware, HDD, SSD, storage, Storage Prices

• A welcome change in Win10’s cleanup tools

  Posted on July 1, 2019 at 01:10 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

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  By Fred Langa

  Version 1903 adds new and useful functions to Win10’s Settings/Storage menus. The new Storage also corrects some truly boneheaded user-interface mistakes Microsoft made in the previous version!

  Plus: A reader recommends a free tool to fix Win10 permissions issues, and making and using custom versus generic recovery drives.

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 16.24.0 (2019-07-01).

  LangaList, Windows 10 AskWoody Plus Newsletter, permissions, recovery drives, storage, Win10 1903

• Finding your photos in the cloud

  Posted on June 10, 2019 at 02:01 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

  Have you ever wanted to bring up a particular photo or two (or eight) on your smartphone?

  Maybe you want to revisit your last vacation or your child’s wedding. Or perhaps you want to show off photos of your grandchildren — but not too many … you don’t want to annoy people. Here’s how to find images in OneDrive, Google Photos, and Dropbox.

  See the full story in the June 10, 2019, AskWoody Plus Newsletter (Issue 16.21.0)

  Digital Entertainment Dropbox, Google Photos, images, OneDrive, storage