Installing an internal hard drive is one of the more straightforward upgrades out there—and is often a better option than using external drives that may be dropped or misplaced. The process usually ...

Adding a secondary SATA drive to your office computer is a great way to expand your data storage capacity and increase security at the same time. Anything that you store on a secondary hard drive ...

Reader Fred wants to know if a laptop hard drive can be plugged into a desktop PC. “The pin out appears to be the same,” he notes, “but there is no separate power-supply connector.” Short answer: yes.

In college, as the burgeoning P2P world opened up before me, I spent four years moving, burning, and ultimately sacrificing the free and ambiguously legal media I had been downloading on my 20GB ...

I know Windows 2000 needs one (Press F6 if you need additional drivers) before mounting the disk, formatting and installing, and I have a vague memory of XP being the same although I'm not too sure ...

Disk access times can make a big difference in many applications, with the bulk of this cost coming from a hard drive's seek time, rotational time and transfer time delay. Free software can test the ...