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

Seagate’s innovation, heat-assisted magnetic recording ... while other media such as punch cards, floppy disks and CD-ROMs fell into obscurity. The drives’ capacity grew as their price ...

Floppy disks were a form ... disks that were coated with magnetic material that made it possible for them to store digital data. Before features such as Google Drive and Microsoft Word, boomer ...

A glass display of PCs and computing accessories, from Intel’s 1976 Sol-20 microcomputer to floppy disks of all shapes ... In other units, rows of hard disks and stacks of magnetic tape drives manage, ...

It controls the drive using GPIO and samples the read data pin using SPI to obtain a forensic level capture of the raw magnetic flux transitions on the floppy disk. Initially this was created to read ...

Inside the drive is the floppy disk, which is essentially magnetic recording tape pressed into the shape of a small record and then enclosed in a square cardboard envelope, 5 1/4 inches on each side.

This is why the shift away from magnetic storage ... to pick a new hard drive for memory’s sake. Else you will be left searching for them, just like we do with floppy disks now.

Many protoplanetary disks in which new planets are formed are much smaller than thought. Using the Atacama Large ...