I guess all the 160 GB models available have one platter but I wonder if the 320GB drives also have only one.<BR><BR>And how important you think that is the number of platters in a hard disk?

Until now, the most capacity on any platter was 20GB. Irvine, Calif.-based Western Digital, one of the top five hard-drive makers, said the 30GB version will sell at retail for $119 and the 60GB ...

Hard drives just got a lot bigger and smarter thanks to the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 range.

Today, the leading-edge hard drive technologies are add-ons to conventional perpendicular magnetic recording methods, where bits are arranged upright and side-by-side on a spinning platter ...

“To increase hard drive capacity, engineers try to fit more data bits, or “grains,” onto each disk platter—they increase the density of bits crammed into each square inch of surface space. More bits ...

Toshiba Corp. will begin mass-producing a 60GB, 1.8-inch hard-disk drive before the end of the year, it said Wednesday. Such drives are commonly used in digital music players and sub-notebook ...

The price of hard disk storage has fallen from US$11.54 per megabyte in 1988 to $0.01 per megabyte today, and the number of independent manufacturers has dropped from 75 to 13, IDEMA said.

It features 20-, 30-, 40-, and 60-Gbyte per-disk capacities. Only 5 mm tall, drives are available with PATA and CEATA interfaces. At 1.8 Bel, their noise isn't detectable by the human ear.

The Hybrid Storage Alliance maintains that the hybrid flash-hard disk technology will speed up the boot process for Vista while still offering the high capacity of hard drives. The founding ...

With the combined technologies, WD will be able to store 2.2 terabytes (TB) per hard disk platter, extending capacity gains on proven ePMR technology. “We see a path to the first 3-terabyte ...

The new 1TB/platter 3.5-inch desktop drives incorporate LSI TrueStore system-on-chip (SoC) solutions, including 40nm read channels featuring second-generation low-density parity check (LDPC) iterative ...

Maxtor announced its first disk packed with 29.4G bits per inch earlier this month. However, that drive — the 541D — only uses one side of the platter, making it a low-cost 20GB drive.