Verbatim have announced a new external hard-drive, though you'd be forgiven for mistaking it for a set of kitchen scales. The InSight USB Portable Hard Drive has an always-on LCD which permanently ...

Hard Disk Sentinel (HDSentinel) is a multi-OS SSD and HDD monitoring and analysis software. Its goal is to find, test, diagnose and repair hard disk drive problems, report and display SSD and HDD ...

Long-time Mac upgrade vendor OWC will soon launch SMART Alec, a utility to keep an eye on the health reporting data from SSDs, hard drives, and Fusion Drives connected to a Mac. SMART Alec's Advanced ...

Great for PCs that lack a hard-drive LED, free utility TrayStatus can also display the status of various keyboard keys. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features ...

Western Digital have outed a new portable hard-drive, the My Passport Studio, and like the My Book Studio before it they've slapped on a super-frugal E Ink panel to show drive status details.

If when you start your Windows 11/10 PC and it displays the error message SMART Failure Predicted on Hard Disk 0, 2, etc., message and the computer won’t boot, then ...

Of all the PC components, few require more care and attention than a hard drive. We’ve all heard the admonishments to defragment drives, and clean up junk files to keep all our 1s and 0s sparkling. No ...

The bloom is on solid state drives that are faster and more reliable, use less energy and are quieter than their geriatric brethren -- hard disk drives. But it's way too soon to say goodbye to HDDs. A ...