Hard drives have breather holes for a reason that goes far deeper than simple ventilation. Covering them up could destroy the ...

The hard drive performance trick nobody uses anymore (and why you shouldn't either) ...

Hard disk drives may seem outdated and useless, now that solid state drives keep plummeting in price. But even with how relatively cheap SSDs are currently, buying a hard disk drive instead of an SSD ...

Bye-bye SATA? Seagate’s latest creation melds a hard disk drive with the NVME protocol. The company debuted the concept at a computing summit in San Jose, California, this week, and says it could pave ...

USB sticks are a convenient way to store and transfer data, but sometimes they’re not recognized by the system after being ...

If the engineers at Agere Systems have their way, small hard drives will play an even bigger role in music players and other handheld devices. The semiconductor company is shopping around the idea ...

Gear such as MP3 players with tiny drives are all the rage, but drive makers say their platters cannot get much smaller. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers hardware, ...

An external disc connected to a laptop. - Nor Gal/Shutterstock If you were to buy a new laptop, you'd have a hard time finding one with a built-in disc drive that can read CDs, DVDs, or Blu-ray discs.

If you were anywhere near a computer in the mid-to-late 1990s, you almost certainly encountered a Zip drive. That distinctive ...

There's nothing quite like the drive to build something just to see if you can. YouTuber polymatt set out to create a floppy disk drive, the favored storage medium of yesteryear, from scratch, because ...