Every small business should back up its data regularly, yet too many don’t do it often enough—or in some cases, at all—largely because of the considerable time and effort that’s typically involved.

In a nutshell: Ken Shirriff is an IC reverse engineering enthusiast who enjoys restoring vintage computers and devices. While repairing an 8-inch HP floppy drive, the computer historian discovered an ...

One way to erase all the data on your hard drive is to write zeroes to all of the sectors on the disk. This method, termed "zero-filling," is sometimes used to recover a drive from a logical crash or ...

HP 3D DriveGuard is a feature designed to protect a laptop’s hard drive from damage caused by sudden movements or impacts. The tool relies on a three-axis digital accelerometer designed to work as a ...

Moving the head takes a lot longer than waiting for the sector to come around. So low seek times (the time to move the head) are critical to good disk performance. Access time (time to find a sector) ...