SSDs are incredibly popular, and it’s not hard to see why. But, if you need a lot of fast storage, and you don’t have a vault of cash, hybrid hard drives are a great option, especially for gaming.

Finally, the term clusters (also called allocation units) refers to the minimum area a file can take up on the hard drive.An operating system uses blocks.Blocks are groups of sectors (between 1 and 16 ...

Examine the stickers on the hard drives for a master/slave pinout diagram. This diagram is usually near the pins or near the hard drive serial number. If there is no sticker, ...

A hard drive, also known as a hard disk drive, is a storage device used on many computers that's prone to failure but offers high performance. Business Insider Subscribe Newsletters ...

In what can only be described as the hard drive equivalent of Game of Thrones, Western Digital's HGST has announced the world's first 10-terabyte hard drive: the helium-filled Ultrastar He10. This ...

To understand how and why SSDs are different from spinning discs, we need to discuss hard drives. A hard drive stores data on a series of spinning magnetic disks called platters. This diagram ...

The WD Elements boasts a single 14TB disk drive so it's physically no bigger than any other desktop hard drive. It features a fast USB 3.0 5Gbps (625MBps) interface, although real world transfer ...

For a limited time, Amazon is offering this massive Seagate Expansion 22TB USB 3.0 Desktop Hard Drive for $249.99 shipped. This is one of the lowest prices per TB of storage I've seen at $11.36 ...

You spin me right round, baby. Let's start our look into the guts of storage drives with ones that use magnetism to store digital data. The mechanical hard disk drive (HDD) has been the standard ...

It’s the world’s largest PC hardware orchestra (probably): it’s Floppotron 3.0, built from 512 floppy disk drives, four flatbed scanners, and 16 hard disk drives by Polish engineer Paweł ...

Buried deep in a Welsh landfill, beneath layers of years-old garbage, there is a hard drive that holds the key to almost $800 million in bitcoin – or so James Howells believes, after ...

The Buffalo Skeleton Hard Disk is a 4TB hard drive that reveals its inner workings through a window, but only 50 are being released through a lottery. Take a peek inside.