Building your own external hard drive is a 5-minute job that can be done without opening up your PC's case. By buying an internal drive and an enclosure to put it in, you save money.

External hard drives are great for storing photos, music, videos, and backup files. Not only can they can be used with a PC, but also with media devices to add streaming storage, and with Wi-Fi ...

Building a gaming PC can be one of the best ways to learn about how a computer works and possibly save yourself some money in ...

An external USB hard drive is a great way to back up your system, boost its storage capacity, move data between locations, and save the time it takes to move huge files between machines on a slow LAN.

As a bonus, what may now sound like technobabble spouted by PC gurus will quickly start to make sense. You casually pick up ...

If you've cracked open your PC before to install a new hard drive or TV capture card, but you've never built a whole new system from the ground up, it's not as difficult as you might think.

Swapping a HDD boot drive for an SSD is the first suggestion I make to people looking to breathe new life into their PC. But if you need more storage, a hard disk drive usually works just fine ...

A hard disk drive’s more languid pace is fine when you don’t need to interact with it frequently, but if you have one as a boot drive, you’ll feel its slower speed every time you use your PC ...

Step 1: To install a hard drive, find the 3.5-inch drive mounting point(s) in your case. These can be full hard drive cages with multiple mounting points, or it might be just space for a single ...