The afflicted drive is a Western Digital Caviar 1200JB<BR><BR>The drive started making funny clicking noises a few days ago, but there was no data loss or corruption (according to reiserfsck). So I ...

I've had 2 80 gig hard drives fail over the last 3 months. One was a western digital and one was a maxtor. Now when I access my slave drive (120 gig maxtor) It started making a quit grinding sound.

Hard Faults are an accepted component of how contemporary computers analyze storage-related information. In cases where a memory block is obtained from the Page File (Virtual Memory) rather than the ...

Hard drives serve as the beating heart of electronic devices, faithfully storing and retrieving your precious information. As the primary storage unit within your computer, a hard drive harbors your ...

Mea culpa. If you bought a MacBook between 2006 and 2007 and your hard drive sounds like an unoiled rock tumbler trying to work its way through a belly full of rusty bolts, you could be eligible for a ...

Seagate yesterday released a fix to a bug in its current generation of drives that caused them to become undetectable by a computer. Users have found, however, that the fix breaks 500GB drives — the ...

Seagate Technology LLC today is offering free data-recovery services for customers who purchased the company’s Barracuda 7200.11 desktop hard drive through December 2008. A firmware bug in those ...

One reader's spate of hard drive failures leads him to wonder if it's just a run of bad luck or a sign of a more troubling trend in the storage industry “In the past six months,” writes Paul, “I have ...

On Friday, Apple announced that it would replace some Seagate 1TB hard drives included in recent iMacs that could “fail under certain conditions.” The free iMac 1TB Seagate Hard Drive Replacement ...