Upgrading a drive on your PC is generally not that difficult, but it can be tricky to move over the data, and more importantly, the operating system, to the new drive. It's recommended that you ...

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 ...

Hard drives that have failed. Hard drives that will fail. Hard drives that were retired in the course of a computer upgrade before failure. In this TechBuilder Recipe, I&ll show you how to set up a ...

If part of your backup strategy includes cloning your Mac’s hard drive using a tool such as SuperDuper or CarbonCopyCloner, you’ll want to make sure that Spotlight isn’t active on that drive before ...

I recently had occasion to upgrade a system drive on a simple server box (no fancy RAID arrays) to a new drive with much higher capacity, lower power consumption, and lower noise. I reviewed the ...

“Many home users have to manually migrate their data during upgrades and have no or limited data backup,” said Peter Lin, Product Manager, Data Protection and Recovery. “[Additionally] The new UEFI ...

There are many ways to make a slow laptop faster, but few are as easy and cost-effective as replacing your existing hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD). Making the swap will, in most cases, ...

TerraMaster has launched a new drive cloning system this month in the form of the TerraMaster D2 Clone drive duplicator and enclosure. The D2 Clone offers offline high-speed cloning of HDD1 to HDD2 ...

What if something goes wrong and you need immediate access on-site to a full backup of your Mac’s startup volume or an external drive, and you need to return to work as soon as possible? The ...

The following content is brought to you by Mashable partners. If you buy a product featured here, we may earn an affiliate commission or other compensation. TL;DR: EaseUS Disk Copy makes it simple to ...

So, I had been struggling with disk performance issues on my media production rig for some time, but it was working, so I basically just dealt with it. Search indexing and saving files would slow ...

looking to swap HD's on a relative's laptop. i figured the quickest way to handle moving the data and avoid reinstalling the OS would be to clone the current HD. anyone know of a free, solid cloning ...