To format a hard drive before you start using it in Windows, use the Disk Management utility; on a Mac, use Disk Utility.

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Hard disk drives have advanced in capacity along a path roughly parallel to the well-known semiconductor premise.

As of DSM 7.3, Synology no longer mandates validated drives in 2025 DiskStation Plus, Value, and J-series devices.

We talk to Rainer Kaese of Toshiba about the right temperature to run your hard disk drives at. Not getting it right risks higher failure rates than what would normally be expected.

This Diwali, back up your data with high-capacity external hard drives from brands like Seagate, WD, Toshiba, SanDisk, and ...

Cloning a hard drive on a Mac is a different process. If you have a newer MacBook or iMac, you can't swap out the hard disk on it. The Apple Silicon-based Macs have the storage soldered in, so there's ...

HDDs are alive and well in the storage world, undergoing dramatic improvements on both the material and technology frontiers.

Want to move your OS from an HDD to an SSD or copy data to a different drive? Here's how to do it safely. Palash has been writing about technology (and entertainment) for over a decade. His focus has ...

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TOKYO -- Western Digital, the world's largest manufacturer of hard-disk drives, will invest $1 billion in Japan over the next five years to help the company "drive the next generation of innovation," ...

Seagate (NASDAQ: STX), a worldwide frontrunner in data storage solutions, has experienced a stock increase of over 160% since ...