Your PC doesn’t fail suddenly. It glitches, screams, and eats your files first.

So I've always thought that having magnets near hard-drives was bad for the hard-drives, yet these days all I see are magnet-tipped screw drivers. Even those "iFixit" branded ones, which are obviously ...

This article is the sixth in a series of how-to stories on building a computer. For a video version of part six, click here. After installing the motherboard, adding cards and a processor, it’s time ...

It’s always a strange moment saying goodbye to a technology you’ve used forever, and I now find myself waving farewell to another one: the humble spinning-platter hard drive. Sure, I’ve been using ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. It’s easy to skimp on storage when you’re buying a computer ...

Hard drives can work for many years under ideal conditions. However, various factors such as manufacturing quality, careful handling, protection from high temperatures, moisture, and power peaks can ...

Before you throw out or destroy an old hard drive, check out a few ways that you can put it to use without making our ...

"It's not hoarding if you might need them." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This month I've been testing: Sim rigs that I ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? While solid-state drives (SSDs) have become increasingly popular (particularly for ...

A hard drive, also known as a hard disk drive, is a storage device used on many computers. A hard drive consists of spinning platters that store digital information read by fast-moving read/write ...