This is why you'll often see a hard drive's size mentioned without any other specifics. Manufacturers draw us in with a flashy 1TB offering and we move on to looking at thickness and weight, as ...

Hard drive designers have taken advantage of SNR improvements to make data tracks on a storage disk smaller and pack those tracks tighter. Today this enables areal densities of up to ...

The RAMAC - First Hard Disk (1956) Extraordinary technology for the 1950s, IBM's RAMAC was the first computer with a hard disk. Each of the 50 disk platters two feet in diameter held a whopping ...

Here’s when you should consider a spinning-platter drive instead of an SSD. ... a 4TB hard disk drive will only set you back about $75. Hard disk drives offer more storage for less money.

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 ...

You spin me right round, baby. Let's start our look into the guts of storage drives with ones that use magnetism to store digital data. The mechanical hard disk drive (HDD) has been the standard ...