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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The company which makes HD platters said that it expects to "realise near-line HDD having storage capacity of more than 30TB" by the end of 2023. Not many people know that the world’s hard drive ...

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, ...

The new 1TB/platter 3.5-inch desktop drives incorporate LSI TrueStore system-on-chip (SoC) solutions, including 40nm read channels featuring second-generation low-density parity check (LDPC) iterative ...

Seagate’s HAMR roadmap could deliver 150TB hard drives - but not before 2035 Mozaic platform now enables 4TB platters, paving the way to 10TB disks by 2028 Mozaic 4 to ship in 2026, while Mozaic 5 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...