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.

Most desktop computers have multiple drive bays, each of which can hold a hard drive. If you have a 3.5-inch hard drive and a 3.5-inch drive bay, it will usually slide right in. However, if your ...

Reader Fred wants to know if a laptop hard drive can be plugged into a desktop PC. “The pin out appears to be the same,” he notes, “but there is no separate power-supply connector.” Short ...

You can partition a hard drive with Windows' Disk Management utility by shrinking the existing partition and formatting the new unallocated partition.

You have two primary options to share a hard drive with the other computers in your home. You can connect this hard drive to your desktop PC (internally or externally), or to your laptop (likely ...

The WD Elements 10TB USB 3.0 desktop hard drive is down to $159.99 on Amazon. This drive averages around $187 and the drop to $160 is just a dollar shy of its lowest price ever.

Elsullo2 installed a new, second hard drive into a desktop PC. But Windows doesn't see it.

The WD Elements 14TB Desktop Hard Drive Is on Sale at Amazon: The Best Deal for Local Storage Pay only $14.29 per TB of storage.