Author: Jacob Roach

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; Identity theft protection is big business — just take a look at our best identity theft protection guide — but despite that, there are a lot of steps you can take on your own, for free. Although free identity theft protection services won’t take you as far as a paid plan, there are options available.  In this guide to the best free identity theft protection, we’re going to run down five options that will keep your identity safe without compromising other aspects of online security. After all, trusting a company with your social security number ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; Identity theft isn’t a new concept, but it’s prominent now more than ever. With so much information shared on social media — not to mention the online shopping revolution — more personal information is stored in the cloud than ever before. Although the internet has brought new risks to identity theft, it has also brought new ways to protect against it.  In this guide to the best identity theft protection, we’re going to highlight the services that keep you safe from scams, fraud and any other criminal unpleasantness. Along the way, we’ll also talk about ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; Cloud gaming is one of the most exciting innovations in recent years. The idea of playing games that would normally require a high-powered, expensive gaming PC on any device is appealing, even if it’s a bit of a pipe dream. Although the advertising for cloud gaming lands on the hyperbolic side of things, some of the claims are true.  In this guide, we’re going to explore the best cloud gaming services that deliver on the promises they set forth. Using the criteria in our cloud gaming reviews, we tracked down the top three services in ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; Cloud gaming, according to the many companies entering the field, is the future of gaming. Although that’s pushing it a little far — local gaming will dominant for many decades to come — cloud gaming could be a serious alternative a few years down the line. Some services, such as Shadow and PlayStation Now, showcase that.  The technology that cloud gaming uses has been around for many years, so it’s not a lack of tech that has kept cloud gaming from reaching the mainstream. Infrastructure, network capacity and remote input technology play a big role ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; Amazon Prime Video usually doesn’t have a stellar roster of shows. Recently, though, that’s changed. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Boys and Good Omens have joined the ranks of The Man in the High Castle, cementing Amazon Prime Video as a serious streaming platform that can contend with the likes of Netflix.  In this guide, we’re going to show you how to watch one of Amazon’s most popular shows, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. The show follows Miriam “Midge” Maisel, an ideal wife and mother in the 1950s who lives in New York’s Upper West Side ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; If you’re in the market for an external hard drive with the purpose of backing up your computer, 4TB is the perfect size. Although it may seem like overkill — a modest downloader may struggle to fill 1TB — the higher capacity will prove useful over time. In this guide to the best 4TB external hard drive, we’re going to show you our favorite ones.  We took notes from our best external hard drive guide, but we didn’t simply port the picks to this guide. External SSDs, which dominate the field in terms of performance ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; When looking at the best external hard drive picks, the 3TB capacity doesn’t come up much. As we’ll talk about in a minute, 3TB is a bit of a sore spot for most hard drives, forcing many manufacturers to cut the capacity altogether from their lineup.  That makes 3TB hard drives difficult to find, though not impossible. In this guide to the best 3TB external hard drive, we’ve done the research for you so you know which 3TB drives will stand the test of time. Though we still recommend going with a 2TB or 4TB ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; When choosing an external hard drive, you need to consider capacity. Overspending on storage space you’ll never use is not fun, and finding out that you need more capacity after a few months is annoying.  For most people, we recommend a 2TB external hard drive, which provides enough storage for backup while being suitable for a few extra files.  In this guide to the best 2TB external hard drive, we’re going to show you our favorite ones, pulling from our best external hard drive guide. We have five options to choose from, each offering something ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; When it comes to external hard drive sizes, 1TB is a bit of a sweet spot. It’s just enough storage to allow you to take your files on the go while not going into full-backup territory. File sizes are getting increasingly larger, making a 1TB external drive the minimum for storing extra data.  No matter if you want to expand your laptop storage or take a few movies on the go with you, we’re going to run down the best 1TB external hard drives around. We pulled from our best external hard drive guide to ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; The PS4 caused quite a stir when it was released, thanks to its hot, swappable storage design. Sony designed the console so the hard drive is accessible from a dedicated slot, away from other components. To change it, all you need to do is purchase a 2.5-inch hard drive, take out the old one and plug in your new one.  There are a few issues with changing your drive, though. First, you’ll lose all of your local files, including saves, unless they’re backed up to cloud storage. Second, you’ll have to download and manually install ... Read More