The era of the hard drive appears to be coming to an end, with the swift rise of solid-state storage that brings with it lower power consumption and higher speeds. But wait: British scientists have ...

You may notice your computer seems to be responding faster and running more smoothly after you've installed a second hard drive. Adding a second hard disk drive to a ...

What Are Disk Speed Test Apps? Disk speed test apps help measure the overall speed and performance of a hard drive or solid-state drive (SSD) (internal or external) connected to a computer system.

Slow hard drive speeds can affect your company's ability to run programs, process files and render video. Checking your hard disk periodically can help to assess the condition of your computer and ...

A report says the performance gap between solid state drives and high-performance hard disk drives is not that significant. Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, ...

Derek is a writer and marketing pro specializing in communicating complex or technical issues in a way that is accessible to wider audiences. When it comes to selecting the PCs, laptops and servers ...

Hello,<BR><BR>My father is currently using a Pentium III 1GHz with 768MB SDRAM (PC133). He mainly uses this box to make drawings in AutoCAD, type Word documents and read email... nothing fancy.

In the beginning, a coalition of the finest tech minds brought us the plug-and-play phenomenon that was USB. Then, a coalition of slightly brainier bods upped its game to bring us the miracle that was ...

A flash RAM-based SSD gives your PC amazing speed, but it’s expensive by the gigabyte. An old-fashioned, spinning-platter hard drive gives you vast amounts of storage for very little money. But if you ...

An upper speed limit for writing magnetic information to a computer’s hard drive has been discovered by physicists. In order to work out the speed barrier, the researchers used a 3.2-kilometre-long ...

Solid state drives (SSDs) are faster and safer than regular hard disk drives (HDDs). On the other hand, hard disk drives tend to be less expensive than newer solid state drives. The best computer ...

Was wondering if anyone knows if it is worth getting 7200rpm drives for my NAS or should I stick with my 5400rpm ones? For the same capacity, I can save over $100 per drive by getting the slower ...