Upgrade your small, pokey drive with this speedy half-terabyte bargain. It works in laptops as well as in Netbooks. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and ...

One of the best and easiest ways to upgrade your laptop is by taking out the hard drive and replacing it with a solid-state drive or SSD. This will allow your laptop to have a longer battery life, ...

While there are a lot of cloud storage services out there like One Drive and Google Drive, it’s always good to have an extra copy of your stuff in a local hard drive, just in case. Luckily, external ...

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

I have two Toshiba 80 GB IDE laptop hard drives. One behaves as expected but throws a SMART flag, indicating imminent failure. The other spins up the platters, but fails to mount in a Windows XP ...

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, ...

Toshiba enters the nascent 1-terabyte laptop hard drive market with the company’s first 2.5-inch 1TB HDD, the MQ01ABD. The drive has an industry-standard 9.5mm height and uses two 500GB platters.

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.