A hard drive that's making loud clicking and screeching noises is trying to tell you something: The hardware is starting to fail and the component needs to be replaced. Failing hard drives typically ...

Portable hard drives are subject to the same issues as standard, internal hard drives: drive failure is part and parcel of having a hard drive. But with an external drive, power connections matter a ...

One of the most annoying problems for computer users is hard drive malfunctions, which can lead to extremely severe data loss. In this article we will focus on this issue and offer 4 tips to reduce ...

My parents have a 4? year-old Maxtor hard drive hooked up to the main IDE controller on an Asus A7V. This morning, after the BIOS detected the hard drive and 2 opticals, it said "Primary hard disk ...

Hack #57 from PC Hacks by Jim Aspinwall (O’Reilly Media). Roughly 60% of all disk drive failures are mechanical in nature–from spindle-bearing wear to read/write heads banging into delicate disk ...

The latest quarterly report from Backblaze on hard drive reliability reveals a rise in failures among certain drives. Backblaze is a pure storage provider; cloud storage is all they do, and they dig ...

Seagate announced two new plans Monday to give consumers peace of mind when it comes to their hard drives: Seagate Rescue and Seagate Rescue and Replace. Traditionally, data recovery in the event of a ...