Cleaning out your closets is always a good thing -- especially if your closet is a crowded PC hard drive. Last week, we talked about ways to get rid of the accumulated digital garbage and improve your ...

I'm looking to add another hard drive to my computer and would like to use my neglected SATA port. Well, my motherboard says it supports SATA II, but sites like NewEgg report the hard drives as Serial ...

You may need to format a hard drive to match your computer's operating system before you can use it. To format a hard drive in Windows, you'll use the Disk Management utility; on a Mac, you'll use ...

A bare drive dock like this one from Cirago is used to quickly move files to and from your computer via USB. Jim Rossman / TNS This week I got an email from a reader who asks, “I have a stand-alone ...

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No matter how much storage your desktop has, more is always better (at least until your motherboard runs out of SATA III ports and M.2 slots). Today, Newegg is selling a 2TB WD Black 3.5-inch internal ...

One of the most convenient ways to increase your computer’s storage is by plugging in an external Hard Drive. However, this has not been the case for most users, according to them, the external Hard ...

Having computer problems? Here is how to defragment a hard drive or trim an SSD in Windows so you can get your PC back in ...

Back in the bad old days of computing, hard-drive defragmentation was a big deal. You needed a quality third-party “defragger,” and you needed to run it regularly—at least once a month—to ensure ...