WD Elements Hard Drive Review
Western Digital Element Hard Drive. Are they for you?
People have been raving about WD Elements hard drives. There is good reason for this. These drives have enormous capacity, are extremely reliable, they run very quietly and for what you get are incredibly cheap. The come in 1TB, 1.5TB, and the new 2TB model. This amount of storage space for an external hard drive is mind-bogglingly huge. They are all plug and play and very, very easy to use. With any one of the three models you can have all of your pictures, movies and MP3's backed up and ...

Failing Hard Drive
Sounds of a failing drive
Is your external hard drive making noise? A certain amount of noise from your hard drive is to be expected. If you hear an extra loud scraping, grinding or tearing sound you have a real problem that need to be diagnosed and repaired. Remember back to the time you bought your hard drive, that gentle hum and "whirring" sound is what you want to hear. A slight increase in volume is acceptable but if it is significantly louder you may have a problem.

Seagate Barracuda Hard Drive
Seagate Barracuda 7200 500 GB
Hard Drive - Seagate Barracuda drives deliver reliable service and high performance. The Barracuda family has been developed and refined over 12 generations and embodies the highest levels of design for reliability and performance. While Barracuda LP is the low power leader, the entire family of Barracuda drives lead with environmental friendly storage. Typically 70 percent or more of the materials used in each drive are recycled as well as being RoHS compliant. With capacities from 160GB all...

Hard Drive Adapter
A Universal Hard Drive Adapter Is A Useful Tool
My universal hard drive adapter is one of the handiest gadgets I own! Do you have hard drives all over the place like I do? Once I got this universal drive adapter that works with all my old drives my problems were solved! It doesn't matter whether you have a SATA and IDE drive. Or whether it's a small 2.5, a 3.5, or a 5.25 drive. They are all supported. Plus they are hot swappable! Problem solved! QED

Solid State Hard Drive
What's a Solid State Drive?
A solid state storage device keeps its memory state with electrical charges on transistors, unlike older hard drive technology which spins and magnetically reads and writes information using a platter. The charges are interpreted by the computer as either on or off, 1s or 0s. To give you an idea of the impact of it's access time, what used to take an HDD 8 thousandths of a second, may take only 200 millionths of a second. Although both access times are fast, imagine hundreds, thousands and e...