The IBM 305 RAMAC comprised 50 24-inch disk platters housed in a large, boxy cabinet, which resembled washing machines – a far cry from today's 3.5" or 2.5" disk drives, let alone solid state ...

If you’re always struggling to find extra storage for stuff on your PC, Seagate looks to have what could be the ultimate ...

A new hard drive based on the long-promised heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology is almost here. Tom’s Hardware ...

A hard disk comprises one or more aluminum or glass platters, coated with a ferromagnetic material. Although the terms "hard disk" and "hard drive" are used synonymously; technically, the disk ...

A primary computer storage device, which spins, reads and writes one or more fixed disk platters. The terms "hard drive" and "hard disk" are synonymous; however, a "drive" technically refers to ...

One fun aspect of 1970s-era hard disk drives is that they are big ... even after a replacement 14″ platter was found to replace the crashed platter with. These CDC HDDs are referred to as ...

Large platter drives are more reliable for long-term data storage. Desktops often support more traditional hard drives than ...