HP 3D DriveGuard is a feature designed to protect a laptop’s hard drive from damage caused by sudden movements or impacts. The tool relies on a three-axis digital accelerometer designed to work as a ...

With games getting bigger and countless photos and videos taking up space, it's inevitable that you'll start running out of ...

There are many ways to make a slow laptop faster, but few are as easy and cost-effective as replacing your existing hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD). Making the swap will, in most cases, ...

Installing an internal hard drive is one of the more straightforward upgrades out there—and is often a better option than using external drives that may be dropped or misplaced. The process usually ...

Reader Fred wants to know if a laptop hard drive can be plugged into a desktop PC. “The pin out appears to be the same,” he notes, “but there is no separate power-supply connector.” Short answer: yes.

Upgrading your laptop's storage to a modern SSD can make a big difference to its performance on paper and how it feels to use. An SSD swap for an old hard drive or adding in a faster NVMe SSD to ...

A disk drive can run as either a master device or a slave device. The master drive does not control or take precedence over the slave drive; rather the master drive acts as the primary device; the ...