I recently recommended that a customer use an external hard drive as a backup device when they remarked, “You know, I don’t think I really know what a hard drive is. What is a computer ‘drive,’ anyway ...

This weekend saw the tenth Vintage Computer Festival held at the Computer History Museum. It’s a nerd fest of the highest order, with a roomful of old machines, some surprisingly old like an ...

The past 12 months saw flash storage nudge into areas from which it had hitherto been absent. In particular, this was because of the availability of denser – and therefore cheaper per-gigabyte (GB) – ...

Over the last few years, much of the enterprise storage market has focused on flash technology, but the hard disk drive (HDD) format has plenty of life in it yet. It is true that flash storage offers ...

Planning to auction off that old computer on eBay? You might want to take a closer look at what’s on your disk drive first. According to a new study by two MIT graduate students, companies and ...

In June of 1992 I paid $3,100 Canabucks for a 330MB SCSI disk for a Sun workstation. In April of 1999 I paid $2,424 for a 9GB UltraSCSI disk for an HP C360. Right now I'm looking at $389 for each of ...

If you’re installing a new hard drive, or need to wipe your drive clean for that “fresh” feeling, you’ll end up formatting your drive. Formatting will check the drive for errors, and prepare it for ...