The speed of a computer depends on several components, including the hard drive, CPU, RAM and video card. Which parts matter most, however, depends heavily on how you use your machine. A faster drive ...

Most desktop computers have multiple drive bays, each of which can hold a hard drive. If you have a 3.5-inch hard drive and a 3.5-inch drive bay, it will usually slide right in. However, if your drive ...

Almost all desktop computers have a hard drive inside them, but do you really know what they are? Many people when they hear the word hard drive, think that it refers to the computer as a whole. In ...

Fast and massive, the Seagate Backup Plus Desktop is an excellent backup drive for any USB 3.0-enabled computer or server. Dong Ngo Former SF Labs Manager, Editor Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been ...

Is your computer gasping for breath, drowning in a sea of photos, documents and random downloads? We've all been there: that moment when your computer feels like it's about to burst at the seams, ...

I recently recommended that a customer use an external hard drive as a backup device when they remarked, “You know, I don’t think I really know what a hard drive is. What is a computer ‘drive,’ anyway ...