When disposing of an old computer, there is really only one way to securely erase the information on the hard drive: destroying the magnetic disk (also called a platter) inside. To begin ...

A hard disk comprises one or more aluminum or glass ... The read/write head must move to the required track and wait until the platter rotates to the start of the sector. By comparison, CDs ...

One fun aspect of 1970s-era hard disk drives is that they are big ... even after a replacement 14″ platter was found to replace the crashed platter with. These CDC HDDs are referred to as ...

In spring 2000, IBM expanded its DTLA hard disk series with two model series, the Deskstar 40GV and 75GXP. For the first time ...

10TB-per-platter technology has also been mentioned Seagate added a 36TB Exos M model to its growing family of datacenter hard disk drives, making it the largest hard disk drive currently available.

By curtailing hard disk platter spin time, power usage is reduced and battery life is extended, the alliance noted. Microsoft's Mobile and Tailored Platform Division has endorsed the goals of the ...

The read/write head on a hard disk hovers above the platter's surface at a distance 5,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair. The analogy is flying a jet plane six inches above the ...