Even if many modern systems eschew classic hard drive storage designs in favor of solid state alternatives, there are still a number of companies working on improving the technology. One of those is ...

Western Digital has introduced the industry's first hard drive that offers 30GB of capacity on a single platter, which translates into two words that consumers love to hear: bigger and cheaper. A hard ...

Seagate is finally offering its largest-ever hard drive – a staggering 32TB in a single drive, made possible by tech which uses lasers to heat and cool tiny sections of a platter in a nanosecond … ...

Solid-state drives (SSDs) are all the rage these days, and for good reason. But that doesn’t mean the era of the spinning disk is over, as traditional mechanical hard drives still offer a compelling ...

For more than two decades, hard drive manufacturer Seagate has been experimenting with heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology for increasing hard drive density—drives that use tiny lasers ...

Heat or dots? The question is dividing the hard drive industry as it prepares for a major product overhaul. Perpendicular hard drive technology, which started appearing last year, currently lets ...

A friend recently asked my advice on updating the hard drive on their computer. They were out of space on their drive and wanted to upgrade to a larger solid-state drive. Traditional hard drives use ...