No one expects their computer to crash or be destroyed, but it happens. Maybe the water heater breaks and floods your office, or perhaps it gets infected with a virus, or even worse. A wrong click on ...

QUESTION: What should I be doing to monitor my hard drive? ANSWER: Of all the components that make up your computer, the hard drive should be considered the most important to maintain and monitor ...

External hard drives can be moved between systems, reformatted at will, and repurposed without risking the data or stability of a primary computer.

A bare drive dock like this one from Cirago is used to quickly move files to and from your computer via USB. Jim Rossman / TNS This week I got an email from a reader who asks, “I have a stand-alone ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. “Obviously” is a dangerous word, even in scenarios that seem simple. Suppose, for instance, you need to do an important computation. You ...