Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

HP 3D DriveGuard is a feature designed to protect a laptop’s hard drive from damage caused by sudden movements or impacts. The tool relies on a three-axis digital accelerometer designed to work as a ...

HP SimpleSave external hard drive backs your files up with ease There's really not much to it, but the HP SimpleSave is one product to consider if you fear the Blue Screen of Death. Most people are ...

One way to erase all the data on your hard drive is to write zeroes to all of the sectors on the disk. This method, termed "zero-filling," is sometimes used to recover a drive from a logical crash or ...

The do-it-yourself server crowd is apparently having trouble procuring hard drives due to the floods in Thailand. Facebook's servers lack vanity plastic and perhaps the supply chain connections to ...

When a system goes down in your office, a properly maintained recovery partition can get you up and going again in just a few minutes. In HP computers, this recovery partition is normally created on ...

Rich was the editorial lead for CNET's Home and Wellness sections, based in Louisville, Kentucky. Before moving to Louisville in 2013, Rich ran CNET's desktop computer review section for 10 years in ...

When you boot your HP computer and it fails to boot and throws the SMART Hard Disk Error 301, 302, 309, 30A, 30B, 30C, 3F1, or 3F2, then the fixes we have presented ...