Gear such as MP3 players with tiny drives are all the rage, but drive makers say their platters cannot get much smaller. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers hardware, ...

New physics research out of the University of California Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz) offers new insight into a poorly understood aspect of disc drive failures, according to industry experts, though ...

A hard drive, also known as a hard disk drive, is a storage device used on many computers. A hard drive consists of spinning platters that store digital information read by fast-moving read/write ...

Over the last few years, much of the enterprise storage market has focused on flash technology, but the hard disk drive (HDD) format has plenty of life in it yet. It is true that flash storage offers ...

Planning to auction off that old computer on eBay? You might want to take a closer look at what’s on your disk drive first. According to a new study by two MIT graduate students, companies and ...