Helium is well known as the gas that makes balloons float and voices higher, but it's also found in some hard drives. Here's ...

Expand your storage and protect your data with one of these external hard drives ...

Your hard drive may appear like it doesn't have all of its space available, but it's actually hiding partitions. Here's why ...

People have warned for years that magnets can wipe out hard drives, but the real answer is a lot less dramatic than that old ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hard drives serve as the beating heart of electronic devices, faithfully storing and retrieving your precious information. As the primary storage unit within your computer, a hard drive harbors your ...

Computers were once the size of an entire room. That's right. A single, low-power computer that was significantly weaker than the phone you carry in your pocket today was also ridiculously larger. But ...

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 ...

The alphabet didn’t start at C for no reason.

I just recently moved into a new place, and I'm considering placing my TV near my computer. Would static from the TV (either LCD or CRT; I can currently choose TVs of either type to use) damage the ...