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 ...

If current pricing trends continue, the conventional notebook hard drive could die by 2018, replaced with fast, slim, and increasingly cheaper SSDs. SSDs can generally transfer data faster and with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

IBM is using an extra dash of pixie dust to add gigabytes of storage to its notebook hard drives. New Travelstar hard drives for notebooks announced Wednesday boost maximum capacity from 60GB to 80GB, ...

Laptop hard drives are prone to the same defragmenting risks as desktop computers, except a few factors change in the severity of the risks. If you're using the ...

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 ...

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 ...