A hard drive, also known as a hard disk drive, is a storage device used on many computers. A hard drive consists of spinning platters that store digital information read by fast-moving read/write ...

Researchers from UC Berkeley, among other institutions, have found that magnetic data stored on computer chips could be switched quickly, opening up opportunities for future computer chip memory.

Modern-day hard disk drives (HDDs) hold the interesting juxtaposition of being simultaneously the pinnacle of mass-produced, high-precision mechanical engineering, as well as the most scorned storage ...

Western Digital has pushed the capacity of its spinning disk hard disk drives (HDDs) by 2TB (terabytes) with the addition of an 11th platter. That has manifested in two new drives, the standard ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Western Digital Corp. has agreed to buy component maker Komag Inc., in the latest move to consolidate the disk drive industry, for about $1 billion in cash, the companies ...