If you currently find yourself locked out of your WD external hard drive with no means of recuperating your password, do not panic. There are some very simple solutions that you can implement to ...

As a precaution, I always run OEM diags on new drives I just bought. I just picked up a WD RE 2000FYYZ yesterday. I connected it to my trusty old box with Asus P5Q-E motherboard (P45 Express chipset).

A few years ago, I covered SMARTReporter, a simple, free utility for monitoring your drives’ Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) status. As I explained at the time, SMART is ...

Storage – we can never get enough of it. Just when you thought you were safe for a while, along comes a new movie format, a change in work-flow, the sudden desire for lossless compression, and a ...

Whether you've replaced your computer's hard drive or are getting rid of an entire computer, it's important to wipe the old hard drive. Employing a hard drive wipe utility helps to ensure that ...

There is really no excuse for failing to back up your PC. External hard drives are ridiculously cheap these days and they’re a great option for making a second copy of all your files. Case in point: ...

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...