A disk refers to the physical storage medium itself, such as the magnetic platter in a hard disk drive (HDD) or the flash memory in a solid-state drive (SSD). It is the actual physical material that ...

One of the first hard drive storage devices was invented by IBM in the 1950s, and you could get one, assuming you were ...

Hard disk drives record data on spinning magnetic platters, and they do so in tracks. As the platter spins, the head writes ...

My first hard drive was just 40 MB. Back then, circa 1990, the only reason you'd upgrade a hard drive was to increase your storage space. But, today, with the recent introduction of new hard-drive ...

The capacity for solid state drives (SSDs) keeps going up while the price per terabyte keeps falling, sometimes raising questions about the future for hard disk drives (HDDs). Will the cost of SSDs ...