I recently received this question from a co-worker: First, an explanation about Firewire. It is an alternative to USB connections to hookup devices such as camcorders and hard drives. Firewire is ...

This week I got an email from a reader who asks, "I have a stand-alone hard drive that cannot be accessed anymore. I've tried different laptops and different cables, but to no avail. The light is ...

Do you find your computer slow? What if you could speed it up by swapping the storage device with a faster one? Did you know it is easy to clone your data to an SSD to keep it intact? All it takes is ...

My first hard drive was just 40 MB. Back then, circa 1990, the only reason you'd upgrade a hard drive was to increase your storage space. But, today, with the recent introduction of new hard-drive ...

Adding a second hard drive (in these days of cheap gigabytes). I see a variety of opinion about the best partitioning schemes and questions such as "I will be grateful to anyone who can explain to me ...