You have it way easier these days, but back in the day, when you wanted to play a game on your PC, you had to take a similar ...

Optical drives let your computer read and interact with discs like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. While nearly every computer had them a few years ago, they're rare to see on new computers now. If you need ...

The world’s six largest computer drive makers Tuesday published the final specifications (download PDF) for a single, full-disk encryption standard that can be used across all hard disk drives, solid ...

When you boot your HP computer and it fails to boot and throws the SMART Hard Disk Error 301, 302, 309, 30A, 30B, 30C, 3F1, or 3F2, then the fixes we have presented ...

If you used or owned a laptop in the 2000s, you'd probably remember that it sported either a DVD or Blu-Ray drive for popping in installation discs, movies, and even the occasional album from your ...

New physics research out of the University of California Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz) offers new insight into a poorly understood aspect of disc drive failures, according to industry experts, though ...

Music, movies, and books have gone from physical objects to digital files over the past 10 years, and computer designs have changed with the times. A lot of computers — laptops, all-in-ones, and ...

This is a new Core 2 Duo rig, and I just noticed today that copying from CDs takes unusually slow. So I ran Nero CD Speed and found the following:<BR> View image ...

If you’ve ever wished that you could emulate the performance of a solid-state drive without installing a new piece of hardware, consider creating a new virtual hard drive on your PC that runs purely ...