I'm willing to bet that anyone who has been a PC user for over 10 years has one or more hard drives gathering dust somewhere in their home. What was once the only storage medium for desktops and ...

Deleting a file on a computer rarely means it is gone. On traditional hard drives and many solid-state drives, what ...

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This short video from [ProShorts 101] shows us how to build a variable speed disc sander from not much more than an old hard drive. We feel that as far as hacks go this one ticks all the boxes. It is ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Technically, you should assume that data is never truly removed from a hard drive. That's because, for the most part, when you delete a file ...

You can just toss that old hard drive in a drawer, which is the cheapest way to be sure nobody will access it, but if you’d just like to be rid of it, I’d recommend destroying it. Jim Rossman / TNS I ...