Hard disk drives (HDDs) work by spinning their internal platters. Only while spinning can data be read or written. It’s been decades since they gained the ability to remain online but not spinning in ...

While I know there are people for whom 500 gb of drive space is worth getting at that price, there are way too many red flags about it to tempt me. Besides I'd be looking for a drive with at least two ...

I’ve expressed no shortage of admiration in past writeups (stretching back…oh…a quarter century or so…) for the flash memory industry’s incremental cost ...

If your data is worth no more than $28 on a nine year old drive then this sounds a perfect match. Toshiba drives are good. Do hard drives wear out due to age or due to use, or some combination of both ...