As you probably know, your hard drive is the most important and fragile component of your computer. Since it houses all your data, your system basically “lives and dies” by the health of your hard drive.
Perhaps the most important indicator in a hard drive is the S.M.A.R.T. check which is built in to virtually all [...]

All of us have been through this at some point. We have a new, virgin hard drive and we need to move all of our programs and files over to it. You may have bought a new computer. You may just be installing a new, faster hard drive. Either way, you need to move everything [...]

Sooner or later, all hard drives crash. It is only a matter of when. When it happens, the degree of sweat and tears you experience is directly related to how prepared you were for it to begin with. Backing up your data is important. I even have two computers which are set up almost identically [...]

Of all the things that most affect the performance of a PC, one of the (if not THE) biggest bottleneck is the hard drive. It is one of the few mechanical items left in your computer. Yes, there is the optical drive (CD/DVD), but this does not impact performance of the PC unless you are [...]

A step-by-step guide on installing a new hard drive.

A visual look at what’s involved in installing a standard hard drive.

Aaron introduces the SATA and SATAII hard drive interfaces

Asus is typically known for good quality motherboards. Alaron puts their DVD burner to the test to see if the quality that appears in their motherboards also appears in this burner.

Force gives a very detailed tutorial on hard drives. He covers everything from basic mechanics to signs of a coming HDD failure to data recovery to recommedned software. A MUST READ!

David gives the ins and outs of RAID, what you need to know, and how to install it

John takes a favorable look at the Plextor 12/10/32a.

A review of this Quantum drive with ATA-66 and noise reduction technology.

Let’s take a look at this very affordable CD-RW drive.

A rundown of the SCSI interface.

A look at drive partitioning and how to do it with FDISK.

A look at the IDE interface, the most common interface for today’s hard drives.

A look at IDE versus SCSI, from a real-world perspective, not boring benchmarks.

A rundown of how a hard drive works and what’s in it.

A somewhat sneaky way to move all your files between drives.

Tracks, sectors, and cylinders! A look at the file structure on your drive.