When replacing the hard drive on your older notebook computer, you'll need to know whether the drive is a Serial ATA or Parallel ATA connection. If the notebook is only a few years old, it almost ...

The CRN Test Center invited various hard drive manufacturers to each submit a 2.5-inch hard drive for this comparative review. They were told that the drives would be evaluated on their read and write ...

Solid-state drives are all the rage. Since SSDs have no moving parts, they’re more rugged and shock-resistant than standard hard drives–which makes them perfect for laptops that get bumped around a ...

From time to time when troubleshooting a laptop (and particularly when your warranty is up), you may need to open your laptop to remove and reinstall components. Removing a laptop's hard drive won't ...

Upgrading your notebook's legacy hard drive to a new, fast SSD is a substantial upgrade that makes good sense for a number of reasons. First, Solid State Drives offer orders of magnitude higher ...

This week Toshiba’s [OTC:TOSBF] storage division announced the notebook industry’s first 400GB hard disk, upping the ante in the increasing format war between traditional hard drives and solid state ...

Hard-drive maker Seagate is going mobile. The Scotts Valley, Calif., company introduced on Monday a line of hard drives for notebook PCs, a move that marks the company's return to the mobile market.

If current pricing trends continue, the conventional notebook hard drive could die by 2018, replaced with fast, slim, and increasingly cheaper SSDs. SSDs can generally transfer data faster and with ...

Hard-drive maker Seagate is going mobile. The Scotts Valley, Calif., company will introduce on Monday a new line of hard drives for notebook PCs, a move that marks the company's return to the mobile ...

Buying a new laptop or a better hard drive is always fun, but the part we all dread is migrating all the data from one device to another. Luckily, there is no shortage of ways in which this can be ...

While ultralight notebook computers -- led by Apple’s MacBook Air -- are becoming more and more like smartphones, the vast majority still rely on miniaturized versions of the spinning magnetic disks ...

I'm going to do the Big Take-Apart on my iBook G4 to put in a larger hard drive and a superdrive.<BR><BR>I'd like to get a hd that doesn't do that annoying rattle noise every few seconds like the ...