Hard disk drive supply shortages in the wake of Thailand flooding will continue to affect consumers, computer system manufacturers and corporate IT shops into 2013, according to market research firm IDC. “I think the most painful period will occur now through February of next year. We expect the...

The Seagate Barracuda XT ST33000651AS internal hard drive did very well in our tests of 3TB hard drives earlier this year. The drive usually sells for around $200, but for a limited time TigerDirect.com is selling it for only...

The two-bay Synology DiskStation DS211+ is as feature-packed as two-bay NAS enclosures come. Not only is the box fast, but its easy-to-use DiskStation Manager 3.1 software provides tons of Secure FTP and HTTP, a variety of media-serving features, rsync backup to other NAS boxes, iSCSI, video surveillance,...

Network-attached storage boxes are commonly sold already preconfigured with drives, but many companies offer the option for you to build your NAS up yourself. These storage manufacturers sell their NAS devices bare, so you can populate them with the capacity and types of hard drives you prefer. Adding your...

Moving an existing Windows installation to another PC is a massive pain. When you install Windows onto one computer, it configures itself for the hardware. If you move the hard drive with that installation to another PC and boot from that, the OS suddenly finds itself in hardware it doesn’t understand....