Almost exactly a year ago, I told you about Newer Technology’s USB 2.0 Universal Drive Adapter, a clever product that lets you quickly and easily access data on bare hard drives—specifically, 2.5-inch ...

I just bought an IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad T60. Because of the hard drive space limitation, I would like add a second hard drive to Ultraslim bay where the CD-Rom is but I cannot find any second hard drive ...

When I first tested Newer Technology’s USB 2.0 Universal Drive Adapter ( ; $25) last fall, I really, really wanted to like it. For only $25 it promised a way to quickly and easily access data on ...

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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 answer: yes.

While there are a lot of cloud storage services out there like One Drive and Google Drive, it’s always good to have an extra copy of your stuff in a local hard drive, just in case. Luckily, external ...

A device that connects an unenclosed hard drive to the computer via USB. Drive adapters are generally used to clone the contents of an existing drive to a new drive. The adapter plugs into the drive's ...

My first hard drive was just 40 MB. Back then, circa 1990, the only reason you'd upgrade a hard drive was to increase your storage space. But, today, with the recent introduction of new hard-drive ...

What’s the most effective way to replace a hard drive without losing data? Undoubtedly through a 1-to-1 copy, and disk cloning software can help do that without any hassle. Whether it’s to clone a ...