My hard drive is over ten and a half months old, slightly different from the 8.3 months I calculated. So, this method only gives an estimate which may differ from the actual age.

If you want your old hard drive to function as a more versatile device, you can fashion an external drive out of it.

Those old hard drives in your out-of-date computers don't have to go to the junkyard. These projects put them to good use throughout the home.

My first desktop external desktop hard drive and I have had a good run together. But now it's six years old, it requires two adapters to plug into my computer, and it's gotten noisy with age. So ...

That’s why an old AT-BIOS from the mid-80s can talk to both MFM/RLL fixed-disk drives (like ST506) and IDE. In fact, it does not even differenciate between those to. All it sees is a WD1003 or ...

The old hard drive likely has less space than the newer one and performs a little slower, but it comes as a free replacement. The old hard drive has some value in this instance as money saved ...

Even when an old computer won’t start up anymore, the hard drive is still in there. From financial data to private photos, that drive could hold all sorts of private information.

I've been going through my office over the last few days since work was slow. I came to realize that I had 12 bare mechanical hard drives squirreled away, with birth dates from 2004 (WD Raptors ...

Hard drives use a voice coil much like what is inside a speaker to move the head assembly.Very old hard drives used to use stepper motors, back in the day of 10 MB drives. Report comment.

Optical hard drives are quickly becoming obsolete. If you need to securely dispose of old memories, here's how to destroy an old hard drive.

You can just toss that old hard drive in a drawer, which is the cheapest way to be sure nobody will access it, but if you’d just like to be rid of it, I’d recommend destroying it. (Jim Rossman ...

If you can physically remove your old hard drive from a computer you plan to recycle anyway, take the drive outside and apply a liberal dose of sledgehammer to it.