You should still be buying hard drives in 2026 ...

Most desktop computers have multiple drive bays, each of which can hold a hard drive. If you have a 3.5-inch hard drive and a 3.5-inch drive bay, it will usually slide right in. However, if your drive ...

Whether your office computer sets on a desk or accompanies you on the road, you can expand your working capabilities with the addition of a second internal hard drive. Removable storage media – such ...

Drives fail. And no matter how many backups you have, losing a drive when you’re in the middle of working on something important—my namesake’s law—can be a real pain in the ass. Thankfully, replacing ...

Hard disk drives sure have come a long way, baby. In the 1950s, storage hardware was measured in feet—and in tons. Back then, the era’s state-of-the-art computer drive was found in IBM’s RAMAC 305; it ...

When IBM rolled out its first hard drive in 1956, the computing giant literally had to roll it out. Though its storage capabilities were puny, the 5-megabyte drive was the size of a grand piano and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Don't buy a USB flash drive in 2026 without this feature ...

USB drivers are helpful in storing important files. However, there are instances that it imposes a threat to your computer, especially if you don't know where it has been used previously. Below are ...