Now let’s get this hard drive installed in your computer. Drive cages, bays, and mounting options Internal 3.5-inch hard disk drives are typically mounted in a drive cage or in an available ...

Whether you are swapping out a malfunctioning drive for a new one or you simply want to increase your storage capacity, replacing the hard drive on an Asus computer is a reasonably simple task.

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 ...

There are a number of standards in PCs, but SATA is one of the most common and enduring. It also remains one of the most important storage connection adaptors.

Being that this was my first SATA drive, I was surprised at how loose the data connector is, compared to IDE drives.