Old Computer Hard Drives Were The Size Of Your Washing Machine - Here's Why

Before flash drives and SSDs, storage came in giant cabinets with swappable packs. Here's what was inside, and why it took up ...
How-To Geek on MSN

Stop building 'all-SSD' PCs: Why mechanical drives are still essential

You should still be buying hard drives in 2026 ...
How-To Geek on MSN

SSDs killed the dual-actuator HDD: Why two mechanical arms couldn't save the hard drive

Why doubling a hard drive's IOPS still can't beat cheap NVMe ...
ZDNet

Hitachi toughens up its laptop drives

Shifting its focus from roominess to ruggedness, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies on Tuesday plans to announce a 40GB drive for notebook computers meant to withstand more wear and tear. Hitachi is ...
Computerworld

MIT: Discarded hard drives yield private info

Planning to auction off that old computer on eBay? You might want to take a closer look at what’s on your disk drive first. According to a new study by two MIT graduate students, companies and ...
Computer Weekly

Drive to improve flash reliability

Solid-state drive (SSD) flash memory storage devices have accelerated laptops and server-based computing. As organisations embark on digital transformation and look to use techniques such as ...
Ars Technica

Unplugging sata drive with the computer on?

I am using a 2 terabyte 'external' drive for backups. I was using a docking station but to drag and drop all the files to it was looking like forever to get things done. So I took it out of the ...
Computer Weekly

New research promises denser disk drives

New physics research out of the University of California Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz) offers new insight into a poorly understood aspect of disc drive failures, according to industry experts, though ...