Discover the hidden dangers lurking in your hard drive and how to protect your precious data before it's too late.

Numerous Western Digital hard drives apparently have vulnerable firmware. It becomes dangerous at the latest when clicking sounds occur.

I have a Dell Inpirion 8200 that I got in Sept '03 with a 40GB hard drive nearly filled to capacity and all of a sudden the drive makes a buzzing noise like that of electric hair clippers. It doesn't ...

Hard drive sounds used to steal data from air-gapped computers New tool uses makes your hard drive leak data in a series of clicks, even if it's in an air-gapped system.

Back when I was building my first computer about a year ago, I thought, the more fans you have, the badder you are. About a month ago I decided that achieving a nice cooling to noise ratio was an art ...

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 ...

A slow hard drive can make routine tasks, such as storing and transferring files, unbearably frustrating. Running Windows or any other operating system from a slow hard drive can make matters even ...