Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and blog posts. He writes CNET's popular Cheapskate blog and co-hosts Protocol 1: A Travelers Podcast (about the TV show ...

While Windows 8 enables hard drives with a simple plug-and-play recognition, some older Windows versions require software drivers to configure and operate them. Drivers -- like those for a Seagate ...

External drives are as susceptible to viruses as internal drives. Some malware are designed to infect and spread via USB storage devices. In some cases, formatting, or erasing, all of the files on the ...

Seagate has introduced a 3.5-inch hard drive that stores 1TB of data per platter, by cramming 625Gb onto each square inch of disk. The storage specialist's external GoFlex Desk drives will be the ...

We have all heard hundreds of times how important it is to back up our data, yet the majority of us don’t do it often enough. If you have a Seagate external drive available for your computer or gaming ...

When it comes to learning how to choose an external hard drive, you need to consider what you want to do with the drive, how fast you need to be able to access the data on it, and how much you have to ...