A hard drive, also known as a hard disk drive, is a storage device used on many computers that's prone to failure but offers ...

We talk to Rainer Kaese of Toshiba about the right temperature to run your hard disk drives at. Not getting it right risks higher failure rates than what would normally be expected.

As of DSM 7.3, Synology no longer mandates validated drives in 2025 DiskStation Plus, Value, and J-series devices.

If when you start your Windows 11/10 PC and it displays the error message SMART Failure Predicted on Hard Disk 0, 2, etc., message and the computer won’t boot, then ...

If you want your drives to last, give them a decent home: somewhere cool, dry, and with room to breathe. A padded case adds ...

A solid state drive (SSD) is an external storage device for your computer that works like a USB flash drive.

After deciding to go with solid state, the consumer must determine if the next step is worthwhile, purchasing a bigger SSD.

The LaCie Biggest FW800 is a four-bay external SATA RAID drive that supports several levels of RAID, hot-swapping, and a variety of connection options. It comes in two capacities: 1 terabyte ($1,050) ...

We list the best photo recovery apps, to make it simple and easy to restore missing images and other graphics files.

Several free tools can predict drive failures before they happen, giving you time to back up your data and replace the drive ...