If you have a Mac Pro, a Power Mac G5, or a Power Mac G4 or G3 with free drive bays, you can install an additional internal hard drive instead of upgrading your main one—it’s easy and takes only a few ...

If you've upgraded your laptop, don't discard that "naked" drive. You can put it back to work as external storage. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and ...

Reader Fred wants to know if a laptop hard drive can be plugged into a desktop PC. “The pin out appears to be the same,” he notes, “but there is no separate power-supply connector.” Short answer: yes.

Earlier this year, I wrote several guides to boost the speeds of older Macs by swapping their internal hard drives for super-fast solid state drives (SSDs). As readers have confirmed, their older ...

If current pricing trends continue, the conventional notebook hard drive could die by 2018, replaced with fast, slim, and increasingly cheaper SSDs. SSDs can generally transfer data faster and with ...

Hitachi Ships World’s Speediest Notebook Hard Drive With Encryption Technology; Accelerates Transition to 7200 RPM 2.5-inch Hard Drives Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi) is today ...

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

Q: I was reading about your recent article on someone who was receiving Microsoft update alerts for his Windows 7 computer. This led me to ask the following question. Is there a way to upgrade older ...

Your laptop hard drive should run anywhere in the range between 5 and 60 degrees Celsius (40 to 140 Fahrenheit) without experiencing any major issues. Laptop hard drives may run hotter than the ...