People have been noticing that their external hard drives continue to spin even when they have stopped using the drive. Some Time Machine users are concerned that the drive was being accessed by ...

Mac OS X has an option to keep hard drives spinning for quick file access, or to save power and reduce noise by spinning them down when they're not in use. This can be convenient, but is rather ...

I have a 160 WD Caviar SE hard drive that I <B>just got</B>. It worked just long enough for me to copy all my important, irreplaceable files on to it, and then like clockwork, it died. As far as I can ...

I am shopping for a better external enclosure that I use as part of my backup strategy. The drive in question is written to for about 15 minutes, every weekday when the backup runs, and idle the rest ...

A bit over a week ago, I pointed out that six months after introduction, Western Digital was still the only vendor manufacturing a 2 TByte 3.5″ HDD in volume. As it turns out, I wasn’t exactly right; ...

Flash drive per-gigabyte (GB) prices have dropped by more than 10% since March 2023 to an average of $0.075/GB this week. That’s down from around $0.09 per gigabyte six months ago. At the same time, ...