Hard drive talk

So you click on My Computer, sorry… This PC, in windows explorer and it shows you all your connected drives, and your C: drive has a nice read bar with 500kb of space left on it. You may be wondering if this is the reason your computer is starting to lag? It probably is.  A

If you have ever used a mac you will have undoubtedly unplugged a hard drive and been told you shouldn’t have done that. Windows doesn’t tend to tell you off but the same reasoning applies. You can unplug a USB external hard drive while the computer is running. Use the safely remove hard drive button

The other day my mom’s laptop died and she just assumed she should throw it in the trash… Don’t throw old laptops in the trash… I managed to intercept and showed her how to retrieve her data and also how to fit her hard drive into her desktop.  You can fit any 2.5″ SATA drive

So maybe your computer is doing something odd, or you have a little warning flash up from your anti-virus software that makes you think, can a hard drive have a virus? A hard drive can have a virus, it is known as hard drive malware and comes in many forms, usually attached to software or

A computer is made up of several components that interact with each other, so when troubleshooting an issue with the motherboard you may find yourself looking at a hard drive asking, did you do this? Though extremely rare it is possible for a hard drive to kill a motherboard if it has an electrical fault

I have been fortunate enough to travel far and wide in my career to film and photograph some stunning locations around the globe. Without fail, on the way home there is always the thought in the back of my head that going through airport security might somehow erase my data, it hasn’t happened yet but

Hopefully, you’re not looking at an empty space where your hard drive once was while you search for this question… Hard drives aren’t manufactured with any kind of tracking function. However, there are a number of ways you can make a hard drive trackable. In this article, we will explore how to set up a

If you find yourself sitting at a computer that seems to take an age to boot up and when it finally does it takes the same amount of eons to load up your browser then it could be that some part of your machine is being bottlenecked. A hard drive can be the bottleneck in

If you have ever gamed you will know that FPS (Frames Per Second) is king and every PC you build will be all about trying to get those high and stable FPS.  A healthy hard drive, HDD, or SSD won’t affect FPS on its own. Typically a slow hard drive and inadequate RAM can slow

Everywhere you look you will see articles telling you that SSDs are the fastest most reliable and wonderful things on the planet, and well it’s true, they’re great and can give new life to otherwise useless computers, but you might not want to completely replace that HDD that has done you so well or that

There are two reasons one might want to know the answer to this question. Firstly because you are holding in your hand a dripping wet hard drive that is home to those holiday snaps or you are the curious type who wants to know the answer only to prove the theory… A hard drive cannot