Not all drives speak the same language, and these file systems decide who understands what.

I've made the long overdue decision to keep backups on an external USB drive, but should I go with NTFS or exFAT for the drive? We have an all Windows household here, and although I fiddle with Linux ...

Do you mean MacFuse? I don't know if it's the latest Mac OS or if MacFuse has gotten better, but writing to NTFS is pretty damn fast, pretty much no difference between HFS and NTFS, iirc. But it's ...

It’s a bad time to invest in a portable USB hard drive as a Mac fan. Apple’s dropped Firewire support on many of their notebooks, but have yet to adopt the USB 3.0 standard, leaving Apple customers ...

Technically, it has never been a problem to format USB drives with a storage capacity of more than 32GB with the FAT32 file system. Only Windows itself has never been able to do this, so you always ...

BestCrypt ($60, 21-day free trial) is a file-encryption tool that focuses on the creation of encrypted containers. Each container file can be any size from a few megabytes to as large as an entire ...

This post features solutions for repairing damaged RAW drive without formatting or losing data. A RAW drive is a storage device that has a RAW file system and hasn’t been formatted or assigned to a ...