If you bought a computer between 2003 and 2008, you probably have some money coming to you. It's part of a class action settlement against six makers of computer disc drives. The lawsuit claimed the ...

Planning to auction off that old computer on eBay? You might want to take a closer look at what’s on your disk drive first. According to a new study by two MIT graduate students, companies and ...

Before flash drives and SSDs, storage came in giant cabinets with swappable packs. Here's what was inside, and why it took up ...

Western Digital has agreed to buy component maker Komag, in the latest move to consolidate the disk drive industry, for about $1 billion in cash, the companies said on Thursday. The proposed merger ...

Hard drives are racing into the world of consumer electronics, according to a report released Tuesday by research firm In-Stat/MDR. The same day the hard drive-based Apple iPod got a face-lift, ...

Computer folks often throw around words, terms and acronyms assuming everyone else knows what they mean. I recently learned that’s a bad assumption, though, as a customer discussing backing up files ...

New physics research out of the University of California Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz) offers new insight into a poorly understood aspect of disc drive failures, according to industry experts, though ...

In a relatively young industry such as personal computers, it is unusual to hear of the death of any of its major figures. So it came as a shock to hear about the passing of Al Shugart, one of the ...

In June of 1992 I paid $3,100 Canabucks for a 330MB SCSI disk for a Sun workstation. In April of 1999 I paid $2,424 for a 9GB UltraSCSI disk for an HP C360. Right now I'm looking at $389 for each of ...

The error message Please back up your data and replace your hard disk drive indicates a failing hard drive. Therefore, you need to replace it. However, in some cases ...

Defragmenting your hard drive can be good or bad for the device depending on what kind of hard drive you're using. Generally, you want to regularly defragment a mechanical Hard Disk Drive and avoid ...