I am aware of adapters that allow for connecting a laptop hard disk to a normal, 40-pin desktop motherboard. I wish to do the opposite: connect a 40-pin, 3.5" drive to a 44-pin connector inside a ...

If you're looking for pure storage for the dollar, SSDs have nothing on good old hard disks. And WD subsidiary HGST has packed more gigabytes into a smaller space than ever before with the new ...

The Dangers of Defragmenting the Disk Drive on a Laptop. Laptop hard drives are prone to the same defragmenting risks as desktop computers, except a few factors change in the severity of the risks.

The computer hard drive, once 14 in. or more across, is now no bigger than 3.5 or 5.5 in. in diameter, with those in laptops and handheld devices at 2.5, 1.8 or even 1 in. Hard disks spin at ...

First Personal Computer Hard Disk (1979) In 1979, Seagate introduced the first hard disk for personal computers with 5MB on two 5.25" platters, the same capacity as all 50 platters in the RAMAC.

If you encounter SMART Hard Disk Error 301, 302, 309, 30A, 30B, 30C, 3F1, and 3F2 when you boot your HP computer here's what you can do to fix the issue.

Defragmenting your hard drive can be good or bad for the device depending on what kind of hard drive you're using. Generally, you want to regularly defragment a mechanical Hard Disk Drive and ...