The question is based on this Newegg comment I came upon while looking for a MacBook HD upgrade. I was deciding on whether to go for the 7200RPM 200 GB drive or the ...

So I was playing with an old hard drive and stacked two platters together. Now it's completely impossible for me to separate them or slide them against each other by hand (I may be able to separate ...

Sometimes, when buying a hard drive, you need gobs of gigabytes. But when total storage space is not a prime consideration, opting for the simplest mechanical design, a single platter, makes sense ...

As technology grows older its use cases shrink, leaving us with e-waste piling up and causing all sorts of environmental problems. Fortunately, there are ways of recycling tech effectively including ...

Toshiba has just shown off a new 32TB hard drive, using its HAMR technology to pack more data than ever before into its HDD platters. While hard drives might still be stuck in the past when it comes ...

In context: Most consumer electronics nowadays tend to use solid-state storage, but that doesn't mean that the use of HDDs halted. In applications where the price-storage ratio is the decisive factor, ...

The impact on HDD (hard disk drive) design due to PMR (perpendicular magnetic recording) and other bit-packing technologies is admittedly of great fascination to me. As far back as 1992 I was ...

Toshiba Corp. has boosted the rotational speed of its latest high-capacity hard disk drive to 5,400 rpm, the company announced Wednesday, promising faster access to data for end users. Toshiba ...

I’ve expressed no shortage of admiration in past writeups (stretching back…oh…a quarter century or so…) for the flash memory industry’s incremental cost ...

Seagate has begun shipping its 44TB hard drives based on the Mozaic 4+ platform to selected hyperscale cloud customers. The new drives use Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) technology and ...