I have a PC at home that is kept for CAD – it is only connected to the internet for updates and downloading software, as well as occasionally looking up tutorials, but never random browsing. To keep ...

I have built up a rather large collection of movies and TV shows that I've ripped from Blu-ray discs. Every few years, I find I need a bigger hard drive to hold them all, and with the introduction of ...

Buying a new computer can be fun, until you have to slog through migrating all your old apps, preferences, and files. Wouldn't it be easier if you could just pop your old drive into the new PC and ...

It’s always a strange moment saying goodbye to a technology you’ve used forever, and I now find myself waving farewell to another one: the humble spinning-platter hard drive. Sure, I’ve been using ...

Remember when the cloud sounded like it’d fix all your storage problems forever? Bin your flash drives, frisbee your CDs into a skip, forget floppy disks – the cloud is here. Nope. Sorry. A physical ...

Some things we don't think much about; we just accept them. But have you ever wondered why the hard drive on a Windows system ...

The Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. The appearance of the solid-state drive on the scene was a big ...

We need to handle hard drives carefully. Even the slightest fall can damage them internally and stop working. If you see your hard drive spinning but can’t see it on your Windows 11/10 PC, use the ...