Jim Rossman explains what to do with old hard drives, from secure data erasure to physical destruction and recycling options.

I had a conversation with a coworker this week about an interesting situation with her elderly father's old computer. His computer ran Windows 7, and while it no longer works, when it did work her ...

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If you have hard drives that no longer serve you, maybe due to limited storage or finicky operation, it might be time to finally get rid of them. First, if it does still work, consider ways you can ...

You’ve got a stack of hard drives taking up space in your closet, don’t you? Same, same. Every few years, as the costs go down and space goes up, I upgrade, and ...