The D: drive is usually a secondary hard drive installed on a computer, often used to hold the restore partition or to provide additional disk storage space. You may decide to clean off the contents ...

The speed of a computer depends on several components, including the hard drive, CPU, RAM and video card. Which parts matter most, however, depends heavily on how you use your machine. A faster drive ...

External hard drives back up your most important files, but what happens when they malfunction? Here's what to do if your ...

Fast and massive, the Seagate Backup Plus Desktop is an excellent backup drive for any USB 3.0-enabled computer or server. Dong Ngo Former SF Labs Manager, Editor Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been ...

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 ...

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 ...