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 ...

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

I haven't purchased an optical disc drive (ODD) for my PC since...actually, I don't even recall the last time I bought one. It's even been a minute since I owned a PC with a 5.25-inch drive bay to ...

Running a solid state drive on your desktop computer has several advantages over using a traditional hard drive. Your computer boots faster, shuts down much more quickly and programs open faster. In ...

At the heart of every PC is a storage drive, which stores the Microsoft Windows operating system and also contains space for your personal data, documents, photos, and applications. Regardless of ...

Disk partitioning–separating one physical hard drive into multiple independent volumes–can relieve all sorts of computer-related headaches, and thanks to the Disk Management tool included with Windows ...

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 ...

If your PC is running slowly or has disk errors you need to address the problem. Rather than trying to uninstall programs you could run a scan on your hard drive to fix any errors. Here’s how to do ...