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 ...

The Dangers of Defragmenting the Disk Drive on a Laptop. Laptop hard drives are prone to the same defragmenting risks as desktop computers, except a few factors change in the severity of the risks.

Samsung has a new laptop prototype that doesn't use a hard-disk drive; it runs on 32 gigabytes of flash memory. Steve Inskeep talks with David Pogue, technology columnist for The New York Times ...

Step 2: If your laptop has a hard drive, or older 2.5-inch SATA SSD, you should see it locked in place with a few screws and a pair of cables. Remove all of those before gently pulling the drive free.

Seagate Technology today announced what it’s calling the world’s thinnest laptop and netbook hard drive, the Momentus Thin drive, which at 7mm, is just over a quarter of an inch thick and is ...

The hard-drive maker introduces a 2.5-inch model with the Serial ATA interface, saying it is suited for notebook computers, corporate storage devices and consumer-electronics products.

Seagate's Momentus 5400 FDE.2 drive, with native 128-bit AES encryption, comes in 80GB, 120GB and 160GB models and promises not to drain CPU utilization by placing encryption at the hardware level.