Marvell Semiconductor has produced samples of a chip device that allows data to be transferred at double the rate of the current Serial ATA interface--a communication standard for fast-talking disk ...

What if your external storage device could do more than just store files? Imagine a sleek, credit card-sized gadget that not only holds up to 4TB of data but also doubles as a USB docking station, ...

Disk Utility provides features for creating disk images, RAID, and repairing disks. In the second part of our deep dive, we'll look at those options. In part 1 of this series, we looked at the basics ...

The first time I needed online data recovery help, it felt ordinary, which is what made it dangerous. A portable drive ...

Here is a free and open-source tool to write a raw disk image file to a removable device (say USB or flash drive). The tool is named Win32 Disk Imager. It can come in handy when you want to create a ...

Q: Some of my disks get really slow when they are nearly 100 percent busy; however, when I see a striped volume or hardware RAID unit at high utilization levels, it still seems to respond quickly. Why ...

A handful of macOS apps let you make near-exact copies of your Mac's storage devices, which can be handy for backing up in case of a data emergency. Sometimes it's handy to make a full, complete, ...

While creating a drive partition on a hard disk via the Diskpart utility, some users have experienced the “The operation timed out” error. They have also tried ...

Formatting your hard drive is an important step in setting up your computer. It clears all the data off the disk so that you can start fresh. DiskPart is a powerful command-line tool that allows you ...