Apple on Friday announced that some iMac owners whose machines are equipped with a 3-terabyte hard drive may be eligible to have their drive replaced free of charge, as those drives "may fail under ...

OS X offers a very nice graphical user interface to verify and repair your hard drive, located in the Utilities folder. It’s called Disk Utility, and you can use it as the first line of defense when ...

Possible drive recovery procedure If you applied Apple's hard drive updater and are now left with a defunct drive, this procedure may help you regain use of the hard disk, though you will lose any ...

The Macintosh II was a popular computer in the era before Apple dominated the coffee shop user market, but for those of us still using our Mac II’s you may find that your SCSI hard drive isn’t ...

In creating a full-featured desktop computer that takes up as little space as possible, Apple engineered its Mac Mini with tight internal tolerances. While the computer uses a standard 2.5-inch laptop ...

Reader Haris wrote with a drive problem: “My Samsung SSD stopped working suddenly earlier today. Couldn’t boot and couldn’t repair it in Disk Utility.” Haris had kept his 2012 MacBook Pro’s original ...

My Mac is now silent. After installing a solid state drive (SSD) with no moving parts, the drone of my iMac’s hard drive and fans has given way to such an absence of sound that I only hear the ...

Sometime around 2008 and with the advent of the first MacBook Air, Apple made the declarative statement that the end was in sight for optical drives built into its notebooks. At the time, the lack of ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. No matter how diligent you are with deleting your trash files or clearing your cache on your Mac, your computer is bound to run out of storage ...

The Macintosh II was a popular computer in the era before Apple dominated the coffee shop user market, but for those of us still using our Mac II’s you may find that your SCSI hard drive isn’t ...