If you bought a computer between 2003 and 2008, you probably have some money coming to you. It's part of a class action settlement against six makers of computer disc drives. The lawsuit claimed the ...

A hardware feature that used to be standard on computers and consoles has quietly disappeared. Several practical shifts explain why it stopped mattering.

Optical drives let your computer read and interact with discs like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. While nearly every computer had them a few years ago, they're rare to see on new computers now. If you need ...

Most business PCs come standard with a single hard drive that's more than large enough for the typical user at work. However, in some cases, a single drive may not be the best choice for your ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? While solid-state drives (SSDs) have become increasingly popular (particularly for ...

Secondary hard drives are commonly added to a computer to increase the data storage capacity, but they can also be used to improve system performance. Hard drives are the slowest part of the computer ...

I have a ReadyNAS Duo NAS. Though it supports two drives, I've always only had one drive in it. Lately it's been emailing me (a cool feature) that my 1TB Seagate drive in it has increasing bad sectors ...

Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. today announced one of the industry’s first Blu-ray Disc computer drives, expected to revolutionize digital and high-definition media storage. The new Pioneer BDR-101A ...

Disk errors are one of the most common errors on Windows 11/10. It is also scary because all our data are on the disk drives, and even with backup in place, its time consuming to restore all of them.