Partitioning your hard drive makes managing the operating system, files, and file formats of each partition easier. For example, you can install Windows 11/10 on one partition and store movies or ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? While solid-state drives (SSDs) have become increasingly popular (particularly for ...

Hard disk drives may seem outdated and useless, now that solid state drives keep plummeting in price. But even with how relatively cheap SSDs are currently, buying a hard disk drive instead of an SSD ...

The primary computer storage medium until the turn of the century when solid state drives began replacing them. Hard disks emerged in corporate datacenters in the late 1960s and began to flourish in ...

Back in May 2025, we reported that Seagate had shipped limited units of its 40TB HDDs built on its Mozaic HAMR platform.

Figurines on a hard drive. (Photo by: Andia/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) This is data on C2Q 2024 HDD shipments (and some SSD trends from WD) from the August 2024 Digital Storage ...

Windows has an inbuilt mechanism that checks the hard drive and reports errors if anything isn’t working as expected. In case a problem is detected, the user gets ...

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

Use the following fixes if the second hard drive is not detected after reboot or Windows Upgrade. Before you proceed, we recommend you check for Windows Update. If an update is available, download and ...

Hard Disk Sentinel (HDSentinel) is a multi-OS SSD and HDD monitoring and analysis software. Its goal is to find, test, diagnose and repair hard disk drive problems, report and display SSD and HDD ...