Would you consider buying a new laptop or desktop today with a conventional platter hard drive? Microsoft seems to think that you shouldn’t. Such is the indication of a recent TrendFocus report, which ...

Forward-looking: Do you still use an HDD as the primary boot drive for your PC? While there are some exceptions, most people today prefer a much speedier SSD for booting into the OS, which could be a ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

I think the solution to this one might be simple, just looking for some help. My goal is to test out 64bit bit Windows Server 2008 on an external sata hdd before replacing my existing 32 bit Windows ...

Just merely on a general consumer level, there are many excellent reasons why you should install your Windows operating system on a solid state drive (SSD). Not only are they, generally speaking, ...

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Microsoft could have plans to scrap its use of hard disk drives (HDD) among its main storage components on PCs running Windows 11, according to a recent report by industry analyst firm Trendfocus, as ...

A new report says that OEMs have said that Microsoft is pushing OEMs to not support HDDs as the primary storage device in pre-built Windows 11 PCs, using much faster SSDs in their place. Microsoft has ...

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I have a hard drive for use with the computers at school, that is removable via a DataPort IV removable IDE thingy. I bought another setup for home, so i could use the hard drive at home and school.

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