Back in the “beige box” days of computing, it was pretty easy to tell what your machine was doing just by listening to it, because the hard drive was constantly thrashing the heads back and forth. It ...

If your external hard drive keeps blinking, but Windows doesn’t detect or recognize it, this post will help you. Most hard drives have an activity light on them. The light flashes when there is a data ...

Back in the “beige box” days of computing, it was pretty easy to tell what your machine was doing just by listening to it, because the hard drive was constantly thrashing the heads back and forth. It ...

Just built my first system, and what I've noticed is that my scsi drive almost always makes a short sound like its writing almost all of the time. The sound sounds like a floppy disk being ...

As frequent fliers know, one of the best ways to prevent theft is to keep valuable items with you in a carry-on bag. Likewise, an effective way to prevent data theft is to keep it with you. But how do ...

I've got a hard drive in a raid 5 array that blinks orange and then green, and then back to orange. Over and over. Dell's openmanage server administrator doesn't detect that any of the drives have ...