Reader Fred wants to know if a laptop hard drive can be plugged into a desktop PC. “The pin out appears to be the same,” he notes, “but there is no separate power-supply connector.” Short answer: yes.

When replacing the hard drive on your older notebook computer, you'll need to know whether the drive is a Serial ATA or Parallel ATA connection. If the notebook is only a few years old, it almost ...

Upgrading your notebook's legacy hard drive to a new, fast SSD is a substantial upgrade that makes good sense for a number of reasons. First, Solid State Drives offer orders of magnitude higher ...

update Toshiba on Tuesday announced what it says is the first notebook hard drive to put 60GB of storage onto a two-platter hard drive. The move could pave the way for mainstream notebooks to use more ...

For years notebook users looking for desktop like performance were forced to purchase notebooks that used desktop components like processors and hard drives. The notebook main board and processor have ...

The Scorpio Blue 640-Gbyte notebook hard drive comes in a 2.5-in. package with a 9.5-mm profile. Using 320-Gbyte-per-platter technology, the device packs a 640 Gbytes into a standard two-disk form ...

The simplest mods always turn out to be the coolest, check out this one submitted to the Make Flickr Pool by user Shozcorp. He used a Moleskine notebook to house a 3.5 inch hard drive, which he uses ...

Upgrading your notebook's legacy hard drive to a new, fast SSD is a substantial upgrade that makes good sense for a number of reasons. First, Solid State Drives offer orders of magnitude higher ...