Modern hard disk drives use a Serial Advanced Technology Attachment or SATA interface to attach to a computer motherboard. SATA drives come in speeds of 1.5 gigabits per second, 3.0 Gbps and 6.0 Gbps.

You can use external hard drives to back up critical business data or add additional storage to a workstation. However, because external storage devices can cost hundreds of dollars, you can reduce ...

Running out of storage space on your desktop? You could try backing up some of your files, or remove some unused programs and media, but it would be easier to just ...

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Solid-state drives are all the rage. Since SSDs have no moving parts, they’re more rugged and shock-resistant than standard hard drives–which makes them perfect for laptops that get bumped around a ...

Digital movies, music, and photos can take up quite a bit of disk space. If you’re running out of room, it’s easy to add a bigger hard drive to your PC. Here’s how to do it. PCWorld helps you navigate ...

I just built a new system for myself, and one of the new components is a SATA hard drive (plugged directly into the motherboard, no SATA card). I want to clear up my system and get Windows installed ...

It can be frustrating when your hard disk or partition is not detected when installing Windows 11/10 and you get to see an error message that says— We couldn’t ...

This week we'll tackle a job that almost every computer user will face sometime: replacing your primary hard drive. This is the drive your computer boots from and the one that houses the operating ...