Do you know how a modern hard drive works? If you don’t you should have a pretty good idea after watching this video. In only five minutes [Bill Hammack] manages to describe a hard drive in ...

which is what usually comes to mind first with modern PC optimizations. Nope. I’m talking about optimizing HDD boot times, back in the days before blazing-fast SSDs. The hard drive in question?

Spinning hard drives survive in this age of superfast portable SSDs due to their low cost per gigabyte, and the 6TB WD My Passport, Works with USB-C lists at a minuscule 3.2 cents per gig while ...

Running out of room on your computer? We've got solutions in the form of internal and external drives at nice prices.

It seems like just yesterday (maybe for some of you it was) we were installing Windows 3.1 off floppy drives onto a 256 MB hard drive, but hard drives have since gotten a lot bigger and a lot more ...

Chinese researchers are exploring the potential of organic materials to develop a new type of hard drive that could ...

Years ago, partitioning your hard drive was a smart way to organize files ... the need for manual intervention. Similarly, many modern applications are designed to store their data in user ...

Businesses throughout Toronto place data security at the front of their priorities because of today’s digital reality. Every ...

Also: Best cloud storage services of 2025 The solution? Invest in an external hard drive. Not only does it alleviate the strain on your computer's limited storage, but it also provides a secure ...

External USB/Thunderbolt drives (aka direct-attached storage, or DAS) are a super-convenient way to quickly back up your important files, as well as store any data that you don’t need on your ...

Here's how to choose the best Apple-friendly SSD or hard drive for your needs, plus our top tested picks. Since 2004, I have worked on PCMag’s hardware team, covering at various times printers ...