Swapping out your old spinning hard disk drive for an SSD is one of the best upgrades you can make to speed up your computer ...

The computer hard drive, once 14 in. or more across, is now no bigger than 3.5 or 5.5 in. in diameter, with those in laptops and handheld devices at 2.5, 1.8 or even 1 in. Hard disks spin at ...

Now let’s get this hard drive installed in your computer. Drive cages, bays, and mounting options Internal 3.5-inch hard disk drives are typically mounted in a drive cage or in an available ...

Alan Shugart -- pioneer in computer disk drives By Verne Kopytoff , Chronicle Staff Writer Dec 14, 2006 ** FILE ** Alan Shugart, Seagate Technology C.E.O., is shown in this January 7, 1997 file photo.

When you’re troubleshooting your computer or installing a new operating system, you may need to “boot from a disc” or USB device (like an external hard drive or flash drive). Here’s what ...

Once we made sure our recovery drive on the working computer had enough space for the contents of the failed drive, we waited. And waited. A full scan and recovery of our 120 GB drive took four days.

The name says it all: A RAM disk is a virtual hard drive stored in your computer’s RAM. Creating a RAM disk requires dedicated software and utilizes a chunk of your system’s available memory ...

The market for computer disk drives is one of the most volatile in all of technology, and the sector’s top companies often see their stock prices surge or slashed in tandem with the market’s ...

The disk light comes on and you can hear the disk drive going crazy. You may or may not be doing anything at that particular moment. (Yes, updates occur all the time, software calls home, etc.) ...

Designed to slot into a 5.25” drive bay, this glorious retro-tech equips desktop PCs with a drinks cup holder and a car-style cigarette lighter. Now I want to see what other weird accessories I ...