We talk to Rainer Kaese of Toshiba about the right temperature to run your hard disk drives at. Not getting it right risks ...

Windows has an inbuilt mechanism that checks the hard drive and reports errors if anything isn’t working as expected. In case a problem is detected, the user gets ...

One of the most annoying problems for computer users is hard drive malfunctions, which can lead to extremely severe data loss. In this article we will focus on this issue and offer 4 tips to reduce ...

When you boot your HP computer and it fails to boot and throws the SMART Hard Disk Error 301, 302, 309, 30A, 30B, 30C, 3F1, or 3F2, then the fixes we have presented ...

Modern storage devices, like universal serial bus flash drives and solid state drives, lack moving parts and therefore aren't vulnerable to mechanical failure. Traditional hard disk drives, which ...

My parents have a 4? year-old Maxtor hard drive hooked up to the main IDE controller on an Asus A7V. This morning, after the BIOS detected the hard drive and 2 opticals, it said "Primary hard disk ...

As topic: the PC is a PC Chips 810LMR running a Duron 750 with 2x64Mb PC100 SDRAM, Samsung 32x CD-ROM, Western Digital WD205AA 20Gb Hard Disk. Had been running stable in this configuration for over 18 ...

Do solid-state disks (SSDs) last longer than traditional hard disks? A new study looks very good for the SSDs, but closer inspection of the results suggests it’s actually too early to call. Online ...