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 ...

Q. I have a computer with a 10 gig IDE hard drive in it. I just picked up an 80 gig IDE hard drive. I want to install it as a second drive. I’ve heard that I could run into some trouble, possibly with ...

I have an old laptop with a dead hard drive that I'd like to install xubuntu on. My problem is that it won't boot from USB and there's no optical drive. <BR><BR>What I would like to do is get the ...

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If you've upgraded your laptop, don't discard that "naked" drive. You can put it back to work as external storage. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and ...

For power this drive needs 24 volts at 6 amps, 5 volts at 4.5 amps, and -12 volts at 4 amps. Fitting the drive into the PDP-11 rack requires a little mechanical adjustment but after making some ...

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 landfills any bigger.