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 ...

CNET editor Dong Ngo shows how you can replace your computer's hard drive with a solid-state drive and be significantly ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) _ Just because a computer disk drive plant is laying off nearly a third of its employees doesn't mean the company will close the facility, officials say. More than 500 people ...

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 ...

Defragmenting your hard drive can be good or bad for the device depending on what kind of hard drive you're using. Generally, you want to regularly defragment a mechanical Hard Disk Drive and avoid ...

Over the last few years, much of the enterprise storage market has focused on flash technology, but the hard disk drive (HDD) format has plenty of life in it yet. It is true that flash storage offers ...

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 ...