If you bought a computer between 2003 and 2008, you probably have some money coming to you. It's part of a class action settlement against six makers of computer disc drives. The lawsuit claimed the ...

Planning to auction off that old computer on eBay? You might want to take a closer look at what’s on your disk drive first. According to a new study by two MIT graduate students, companies and ...

Running a solid state drive on your desktop computer has several advantages over using a traditional hard drive. Your computer boots faster, shuts down much more quickly and programs open faster. In ...

Microprocessor giant is offering a technology that it hopes will deliver the best of both worlds in desktop computer storage technology. The main new feature that came with the Z270 chipset is support ...

Laptop hard drives are prone to the same defragmenting risks as desktop computers, except a few factors change in the severity of the risks. If you're using the ...

Seagate Technology agreed to buy Maxtor Corp. for $1.9 billion in stock, removing its biggest competitor and bolstering its position as the No. 1 maker of computer disk drives. The offer, announced by ...

I recently recommended that a customer use an external hard drive as a backup device when they remarked, “You know, I don’t think I really know what a hard drive is. What is a computer ‘drive,’ anyway ...

For this list though, our top pick is EaseUS ToDo Backup as the best disk cloning software for the majority of people, because it's super easy to navigate and use, and is also very affordable. If ...

How do I format a hard drive? A computer hard drive stores your files, allowing you to access them at any time. The majority of the time, you want these files to remain stored properly and safely.