Almost all computers today store their digital data as magnetic areas on a device called a hard disk, hard drive or fixed disk. Basically, all hard drives work the same way: Information is encoded and ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? While solid-state drives (SSDs) have become increasingly popular (particularly for ...

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) – ...

Automated regular disk cleanups will speed up hard drive access on your PC, writes Windows expert and author Mitch Tulloch. The more your PC's hard disk is used, the more temporary files accumulate on ...

Before discussing the down side of hard disk passwords, I’d like to point out one more advantage. Some laptops, such as ThinkPads, add a two-for-one bonus. That is, you can enter a single password at ...

The primary computer storage medium until the turn of the century when solid state drives began replacing them. Hard disks emerged in corporate datacenters in the late 1960s and began to flourish in ...