To format the hard drive in a Mac laptop or a Mac desktop computer, you use software called Disk Utility. This software ships with all Mac computers, so it’s ready to use for the formatting process.

“The hard disk! How many technologies ever last 50 years?” said Steve Wozniak, cofounder of Apple Computer Inc., whose hometown of San Jose, California, is also the hometown of the disk drive.

“The hard disk! How many technologies ever last 50 years?” asked Steve Wozniak, cofounder of Apple, whose hometown of San Jose is also the hometown of the disk drive.

Hard-disk drives (HDDs) still offer the most storage capacity for the money. Here are our recommendations for the best hard-disk drives.

How to Clone Your Hard Disk to an SSD Using Clonezilla Clonezilla is free and is OS-independent drive cloning software.

Test Hard Drive speed using free Hard Drive or Disk Speed Test Tools. Install these free HDD Read/Write speed testing software for Windows PC.

Western Digital drives have different jumper settings for single drives than for master-slave combinations. You need to change your jumper on the hard drive for single operation.

Silicon Valley turns out to mark today's 50th anniversary of the computer hard disk drive technology.