If you have ever owned a computer, especially over previous decades, you know that the type of storage used has changed many ...

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 ...

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 ...

Is your computer slow? Is it sluggish? Is it taking a long time to load the operating system or application programs? Well, it may be time to upgrade to a solid-state disk drive (SSD). Most older ...

This weekend saw the tenth Vintage Computer Festival held at the Computer History Museum. It’s a nerd fest of the highest order, with a roomful of old machines, some surprisingly old like an ...

The past 12 months saw flash storage nudge into areas from which it had hitherto been absent. In particular, this was because of the availability of denser – and therefore cheaper per-gigabyte (GB) – ...

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 ...

The world’s six largest computer drive makers Tuesday published the final specifications (download PDF) for a single, full-disk encryption standard that can be used across all hard disk drives, solid ...

Hard drives are racing into the world of consumer electronics, according to a report released Tuesday by research firm In-Stat/MDR. The same day the hard drive-based Apple iPod got a face-lift, ...

Western Digital has agreed to buy component maker Komag, in the latest move to consolidate the disk drive industry, for about $1 billion in cash, the companies said on Thursday. The proposed merger ...