Makers of hard disk drives, under growing pressure from faster rivals, hope a breakthrough will keep it the dominant ...

(1) Devices that use magnetic hard disks for storage. It often refers to portable devices such as digital music players that have hard disks rather than flash memory. All desktop and laptop ...

Hard disks emerged in corporate datacenters in the late 1960s and began to flourish in the 1970s alongside tape drives, which were the primary storage medium at that time (see magnetic tape).

Conventional hard disks are based on ferromagnets—materials in which the magnetic dipoles, or spins, associated with each atom all point in the same direction. This alignment gives the material ...

IBM's invention of the hard disk drive revolutionized data storage by allowing random access to data, as opposed to the sequential access used by earlier storage methods like magnetic tape.

Shipped in September 1956, the first 5MB hard disk unit weighed over a ton ... ensuring the integrity of the delicate magnetic disks. Due to its enormous size and weight, it was primarily used ...

This allows for smaller magnetic grains, improving data stability ... sputtering machines are used on over 65% of the world’s hard disks. Although Seagate is Intevac’s main customer, WD ...