SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. — I’ve owned six portable USB hard drives over the past 10 years, and all six of them have failed unrecoverably. Is it just me, or is there a wider problem out there? These ...

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Editors' note: This post was originally published on May 10, 2016 and is periodically updated. The cloud is great. But if you need a serious amount of storage, online backup is never quite enough.

Fact: the current capacity of hard drives is constantly growing. Fact: data volumes are rising accordingly. Fact: the time it takes to analyse these data volumes, as well as to backup and evaluate ...

Remember when floppy disks were cutting edge? These days, 1.44 megabytes of memory might not even be enough to store one high-resolution compressed image, much less an entire album of digital photos.