The CRN Test Center invited various hard drive manufacturers to each submit a 2.5-inch hard drive for this comparative review. They were told that the drives would be evaluated on their read and write ...

Solid-state drives are all the rage. Since SSDs have no moving parts, they’re more rugged and shock-resistant than standard hard drives–which makes them perfect for laptops that get bumped around a ...

From time to time when troubleshooting a laptop (and particularly when your warranty is up), you may need to open your laptop to remove and reinstall components. Removing a laptop's hard drive won't ...

Converting a notebook hard drive into an external hard drive, the Travelstar upgrade kit comprises a 2.5-in hard drive in 40-, 60-, 80-, and 100-Gbyte capacities; installation instructions; the ...

While ultralight notebook computers -- led by Apple’s MacBook Air -- are becoming more and more like smartphones, the vast majority still rely on miniaturized versions of the spinning magnetic disks ...

Upgrading your notebook's legacy hard drive to a new, fast SSD is a substantial upgrade that makes good sense for a number of reasons. First, Solid State Drives offer orders of magnitude higher ...

Notebook computers equipped with hard disk drives won’t face a significant threat this year from those with solid-state drives (SSDs), according to a report issued by IHS iSuppli. Worldwide market ...

Buying a new laptop or a better hard drive is always fun, but the part we all dread is migrating all the data from one device to another. Luckily, there is no shortage of ways in which this can be ...

As far as I know, all laptop HDs are standard 2.5" units. I mean, there could be some company (Compaq, given their track record -- View image here: http://arstechnica ...

Hard-drive maker Seagate is going mobile. The Scotts Valley, Calif., company introduced on Monday a line of hard drives for notebook PCs, a move that marks the company's return to the mobile market.