Externalising your hard drive may seem like a silly idea and in a way, it is but if instead you use this 3-in-1 disk reader as an opportunity for a second large drive, then it’s a stroke of genius.

The electronic heart of a hard disk drive is the read-channel integrated circuit (IC). Over the years, read-channel designers have delivered dramatic improvements in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), ...

One of the first big challenges neophyte sysadmins and data hoarding enthusiasts face is how to store more than a single disk worth of data. The short—and traditional—answer here is RAID (a Redundant ...