"Memory is the new disk," Jim Gray would say. The database pioneer died in 2007 after he was lost at sea, but like so much of the man, these words about memory and disk live on, describing a new ...

A gamer recently discovered something startling when his external hard drive failed. What appeared to be a routine tech issue ...

What does hard disk actually mean? Find out inside PCMag's comprehensive tech and computer-related encyclopedia.

Over the 56 years of the hard disk drive industry annual shipments of HDDs have increased year over year except for a few exceptions. After the .com bubble burst in 2001 HDD shipments were ...

The storage capacity of hard disk drives could increase by a factor of five thanks to processes developed by chemists and engineers at The University of Texas ...

Western Digital (WD) has announced a new architecture that will combine the speed of flash memory chips and the density of hard disk drives into a single product for enterprises and consumers.

If your hard disk space is slowly filling up, freeing up some space is needed. Start with finding the biggest or largest files on Windows 11/10.

Pair Optane Memory with a large cheap hard disk, and the promise is that you'll get SSD-like performance—some of the time, at least—with HDD-like capacity.

Yes, it's possible to move your device virtual memory to another drive, and here are the steps to perform this task on Windows 10.

What is "disk cache"? A cache memory is used by operating systems to store frequently accessed data. As the cache memory is a part of the RAM, it is faster to access and retrieve information from the ...

When buying a hard disk drive, UK storage pros will encounter many different product specifications. This article explains the key features of hard disk drives -- latency, typical seek times ...