Hard Drive Hacks

Odds are you have spare hard drives lying around from old computers. Instead of tossing them out or letting them collect dust, you can easily turn them into DIY external hard drives and use them to backup your important files. Basically all you...

Instead of storing your games on their usual CDs, store them on an external hard drive and then load them at your convenience without having to even get off the couch.� Plus you could even grab some "backup copies" from online and store them on...

Ever wonder what you should do with your old hard drives? Turn them into speakers! It's fairly easy, all you need is some hard drives (the more, the better), some soldering tools, some headphone wire, and an audio source (iPod, Computer, etc..)....

When was the last time you backed up your important files? Last year when your friend called in tears after the Blue Screen of Death ate his thesis?� We thought so.� Learn to set up a program called SyncBack which automatically generates...

Legend has it that if you put a dead hard drive in a freezer, pull it out and plug it in, it should run long enough to recover the data. Is it true? Indeed, it seems so. While freezing the drive for a while extends life momentarily, the real...