I broke the data connector on one of my SATA drives. It turns out that the gold contacts you see are not physically attached to the plastic sleeve above them and I twisted the cable juuuuust the right ...

With due respect, It's not looking good for that drive. Most of the solutions are non-ideal and the part you're looking at won't do a bit of good. If you have the missing part, you may be able to rig ...

Hard disk drives connect to a motherboard using either a Serial Advanced Technology Attachment connector or an Integrated Drive Electronics connector. SATA drives are newer than IDE, so older ...

Like Westley in the "Princess Bride" sometimes hard drives are only mostly dead. If you have a drive that appears kaput, you can sometimes retrieve the data off of it using a USB to SATA/IDE connector ...

Correction: The model of laptop my wife has has a SATA III controller, but Apple supplied only a SATA II drive with it and the controller will not support any of several SATA III-only drives installed ...

There is one upgrade that will universally improve a laptop’s performance: adding an SSD. This is a particularly attractive upgrade for budget laptops, which typically come with a hard drive. That’s ...

Orico has made a clever external 2.5-inch USB enclosure with a retro cassette design that is inexpensive and fun to use. The Orico 2.5-inch USB SATA External Hard Drive Enclosure is a small plastic ...