Western Digital has introduced the industry's first hard drive that offers 30GB of capacity on a single platter, which translates into two words that consumers love to hear: bigger and cheaper. A hard ...

Recently, when I needed to upgrade an internal 3.5 inch hard drive on an old computer, I shopped for the drive with Defensive Computing in mind. Like many, I started with what was on sale at my ...

A friend recently asked my advice on updating the hard drive on their computer. They were out of space on their drive and wanted to upgrade to a larger solid-state drive. Traditional hard drives use ...

The venerable hard drive is hitting middle age. The amount of data that can be crammed onto a single platter in a computer hard drive has increased at a torrid pace for the past few years, even ...

Gear such as MP3 players with tiny drives are all the rage, but drive makers say their platters cannot get much smaller. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers hardware, ...

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 ...

Even if you're a self-proclaimed computer geek who can build a PC from components, do you really know how a hard drive operates? Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...

So I was playing with an old hard drive and stacked two platters together. Now it's completely impossible for me to separate them or slide them against each other by hand (I may be able to separate ...