Helium is well known as the gas that makes balloons float and voices higher, but it's also found in some hard drives. Here's ...

Leaving an external hard drive plugged in all the time carries some risk, but unplugging it constantly might actually be a ...

Expand your storage and protect your data with one of these external hard drives ...

Computers were once the size of an entire room. That's right. A single, low-power computer that was significantly weaker than the phone you carry in your pocket today was also ridiculously larger. But ...

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 ...

No one expects their computer to crash or be destroyed, but it happens. Maybe the water heater breaks and floods your office, or perhaps it gets infected with a virus, or even worse. A wrong click on ...

A bare drive dock like this one from Cirago is used to quickly move files to and from your computer via USB. Jim Rossman / TNS This week I got an email from a reader who asks, “I have a stand-alone ...

People have warned for years that magnets can wipe out hard drives, but the real answer is a lot less dramatic than that old ...

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 ...

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 ...

I just recently moved into a new place, and I'm considering placing my TV near my computer. Would static from the TV (either LCD or CRT; I can currently choose TVs of either type to use) damage the ...