If you bought a computer between 2003 and 2008, you probably have some money coming to you. It's part of a class action settlement against six makers of computer disc drives. The lawsuit claimed the ...

Planning to auction off that old computer on eBay? You might want to take a closer look at what’s on your disk drive first. According to a new study by two MIT graduate students, companies and ...

A hardware feature that used to be standard on computers and consoles has quietly disappeared. Several practical shifts explain why it stopped mattering.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) _ Just because a computer disk drive plant is laying off nearly a third of its employees doesn't mean the company will close the facility, officials say. More than 500 people ...

Running a solid state drive on your desktop computer has several advantages over using a traditional hard drive. Your computer boots faster, shuts down much more quickly and programs open faster. In ...

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 ...

Microprocessor giant is offering a technology that it hopes will deliver the best of both worlds in desktop computer storage technology. The main new feature that came with the Z270 chipset is support ...

Computers were once the size of an entire room. That's right. A single, low-power computer that was significantly weaker than the phone you carry in your pocket today was also ridiculously larger. But ...

When you are doing work for your business using an iMac, you can load a disk to access files and applications. All iMacs come with an optical drive, which Apple calls a SuperDrive. Unlike drives that ...