Leaving an external hard drive plugged in all the time carries some risk, but unplugging it constantly might actually be a ...

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 ...

Whether you’re working on a laptop or a tablet, a lack of internal storage can literally clog up your day. You can run a disk cleanup to clear up some clutter, but if you’re simply out of precious ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...