Before flash drives and SSDs, storage came in giant cabinets with swappable packs. Here's what was inside, and why it took up ...

IBM unleashed the world's first computer hard disk drive in 1956. It was bigger than a refrigerator. It weighed more than a ton. And it looked kinda like one of those massive cylindrical air ...

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 ...

National Clean Out Your Computer Day — a day devoted towards decluttering hard drives to keep computer systems as efficient as possible, and reclaiming wasted disk space — is on February 12th. There’s ...

Q: Scenario: You’re sitting at your desktop doing work of some sort. The disk light comes on and you can hear the disk drive going crazy. You may or may not be doing anything at that particular moment ...

What’s the most effective way to replace a hard drive without losing data? Undoubtedly through a 1-to-1 copy, and disk cloning software can help do that without any hassle. Whether it’s to clone a ...

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 ...

Defragmenting your hard drive can be good or bad for the device depending on what kind of hard drive you're using. Generally, you want to regularly defragment a mechanical Hard Disk Drive and avoid ...

Hard drive passwords block access to all the files stored on the hard disk in your computer. They offer great security without having to install any software, without having to learn much, without ...