The drive attempts to shuffle your most-accessed data to the drive’s memory cache for quicker access. A majority of your data stays on the slower HDD portion.

Q: My Seagate 250-gigabyte external hard drive, which is less than 20 percent full, cannot be accessed — or at least the contents, mostly jpg files and Word docs, cannot. It had started to ...

Once you have the drive out, you’ll need a dock to connect a bare drive to your computer via USB. You can buy a dock online for around $25.

You can access iCloud Drive on a Mac computer to share and work on files across all your devices. Here's how to activate and access iCloud on a Mac.

How to Access a USB Drive on Windows 8. Windows 8, like its predecessors, makes USB drives accessible via Windows Explorer, or as its now known, File Explorer. The contents of a removable device ...

A USB extension cable enables convenient access to USB thumb drives even when your computer's USB port is tightly cluttered with other devices or reside in an inconvenient location. The USB cable ...

File and folder management in Google Drive on the web is pretty straightforward. Hover over files and folders to see options ...

On Windows Get a backup drive. This can be just about any USB external hard drive, and you can get them at most electronics stores. Try to get one that has twice as much space as your computer, so ...

How to upload files to Google Drive from your phone Now that you know what Google Drive is, start uploading files and use your storage space. You can create folders and subfolders for further ...

AppleInsider explains how to remotely access the CD or DVD drive of another Mac or Windows PC from a Mac without the drive, across a network.