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 ...

Depending on the model, a Compaq Presario might use a SATA hard drive or an IDE drive. The former is found in most models released after 2003, and the latter in earlier PCs. Replacing an IDE drive is ...

Most small businesses today rely on computers for a wide variety of tasks ranging from billing and accounting to maintaining inventory, email correspondence and storing HR records. All this crucial ...

It never ceases to amaze me how quickly hard disk space is consumed. Roughly about a year ago, I replaced my primary desktop PC with a newer one. Since I don't actually save any data on my PC, I opted ...

There are many ways to make a slow laptop faster, but few are as easy and cost-effective as replacing your existing hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD). Making the swap will, in most cases, ...

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 ...

Sometime around 2008 and with the advent of the first MacBook Air, Apple made the declarative statement that the end was in sight for optical drives built into its notebooks. At the time, the lack of ...

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

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 ...

The error message Please back up your data and replace your hard disk drive indicates a failing hard drive. Therefore, you need to replace it. However, in some cases ...

There are many ways to make a slow laptop faster, but few are as easy and cost-effective as replacing your existing hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD). Making the swap will, in most cases, ...