For many years, mechanical-storage devices were the de facto standard for PC data storage, and shopping for your desired drive was as simple as picking a hard-disk of the required capacity. The ...

Almost all desktop computers have a hard drive inside them, but do you really know what they are? Many people when they hear the word hard drive, think that it refers to the computer as a whole. In ...

When it comes to hard drives, the choice is much easier. Basically, apart from a few tech specs, the only thing you are looking for in an HDD is size: the bigger, the better. The hard drive is the ...

The hard drive is the component used to permanently store data instead of RAM, which is erased whenever the computer is restarted. This is why the term mass storage device is sometimes used to refer ...

NewerTech’s Voyager is being billed as the world’s first “Quad Interface” SATA I/II Hard Drive Docking Station with support for FireWire 800/400, USB 2.0, and eSATA for 2.5″ or 3.5″ drives up to 2TB.

External USB/Thunderbolt SSDs and/or hard drives (aka direct-attached storage, or DAS) are a super-convenient way to add storage capacity to your system as well as back it up. External drives are also ...

When it comes to external hard drives, FireWire is a Mac user’s best bet. You can use a FireWire drive to speed up your backups, provide a little elbow room for all of the files stored on your ...