The progress of hard disk drive technology is reviewed, and future storage technology is observed. First, areal density growth, and improvement of performance such as data transfer rate and access ...

I've never once touched a floppy disk with my bare hands. Yet, I somehow feel quite a bit of nostalgia for the old bit of ...

A PlayStation 3 Slim, once with a malfunctioning disc drive, undergoes a detailed restoration to bring it back to life. The ...

The evolution of the Musical flOPPY controller. Everything* you need to make your own musical floppy drives! The wiki has additional information, instructions for getting started, and some other ...

This paper reports a new fabrication process and designing method to integrate MEMS piggyback actuators on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafer with magnetic read/write heads of hard-disk drives. Large ...