You can't prevent hard drive failure, but you can be prepared for it ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

People have warned for years that magnets can wipe out hard drives, but the real answer is a lot less dramatic than that old tech myth suggests.