When you connect a Hard disk or HDD to your Windows 11/10 PC and feel it is running and are unable to see it on your PC, ...

You might think that hard drives have a shelf life—and that’s partially the case. However, an old hard drive probably has a ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Buying an external hard drive is one of the best decisions a PC or Mac user can make. It gives you the option of backing up your data in a ...

Whether you copy your entire computer, or just the most important files, it's essential to have your data backed up. By Brandt Ranj Published Dec 2, 2024 7:55 AM EST We may earn revenue from the ...

QUESTION: What should I be doing to monitor my hard drive? ANSWER: Of all the components that make up your computer, the hard drive should be considered the most important to maintain and monitor ...

Is your hard drive running slow? Learn the common reasons behind sluggish performance and what you can do to speed it up.

So I've always thought that having magnets near hard-drives was bad for the hard-drives, yet these days all I see are magnet-tipped screw drivers. Even those "iFixit" branded ones, which are obviously ...

A bare drive dock like this one from Cirago is used to quickly move files to and from your computer via USB. Jim Rossman / TNS This week I got an email from a reader who asks, “I have a stand-alone ...

If your external hard drive keeps blinking, but Windows doesn’t detect or recognize it, this post will help you. Most hard drives have an activity light on them. The light flashes when there is a data ...

I am heading overseas for a year soon, and am sending my PC with my big shipment of stuff. Is is best practice to remove the hard drives prior to shipping? Can those be sent separately by something ...

When William Hill became director of IT at the city of Dayton, Ohio, in 1988, one of the first major projects he tackled was to rein in the total cost of ownership of desktop clients. At the time, ...