Recently, when I needed to upgrade an internal 3.5 inch hard drive on an old computer, I shopped for the drive with Defensive Computing in mind. Like many, I started with what was on sale at my ...

Anyone knows some hard disk models available on sale that have biggest capacity and only one platter? I guess all the 160 GB models available have one platter but I wonder if the 320GB drives also ...

Toshiba Corp. has boosted the rotational speed of its latest high-capacity hard disk drive to 5,400 rpm, the company announced Wednesday, promising faster access to data for end users. Toshiba ...

So I was playing with an old hard drive and stacked two platters together. Now it's completely impossible for me to separate them or slide them against each other by hand (I may be able to separate ...

That was 15 years ago. Today there are many good reasons for upgrading a hard drive. With the recent introduction of new hard-drive technologies such as SATA, Native Command Queuing (NCQ), larger ...

The venerable hard drive is hitting middle age. The amount of data that can be crammed onto a single platter in a computer hard drive has increased at a torrid pace for the past few years, even ...

Why doubling a hard drive's IOPS still can't beat cheap NVMe ...

Samsung's 1.8-in. N-series targets mobile applications (see the figure). It features 20-, 30-, 40-, and 60-Gbyte per-disk capacities. Only 5 mm tall, drives are available with PATA and CEATA ...