In this podcast, we talk to Rainer Kaese, senior manager of business development for hard disk drives at Toshiba Electronics Europe, about hard disk drive (HDD) metrics. In particular, he takes apart ...

Memory and SSD storage maker Crucial has crucially revealed detail on why hard disk drives fail when SSDs don't, and if you thought its because there's no moving parts in an SSD, you'd be right ...

The amount of data we can store on computers has been increasing ever since, well, computers were invented. However, there comes a point where you can have too much information, and a PC can't ...

I find hard drives fascinating: the way they store data on a magnetic platter, how the voice coil actuator moves the read/write head across the platter while a spindle motor keeps the platter spinning ...

Over the past 30 years, companies have transferred important data to tape and hard drive backup, then stored them internally or externally for safekeeping with a service like Iron Mountain. Now, the ...

In this podcast, we talk to Rainer Kaese, senior manager for business development in storage products at Toshiba Electronics Europe, about how temperature affects hard disk drives (HDDs). Kaese says ...

Statistics on hard drive reliability just released by data-storage company Backblaze would seem to indicate it’s not a good idea to buy a Seagate hard drive. Of the 104,954 drives it uses, Seagate’s ...

The hard drives that hold generations of albums from the music industry are increasingly becoming unreadable and potentially wiping out a portion of music history. Earlier this week, Mix published an ...