Gear such as MP3 players with tiny drives are all the rage, but drive makers say their platters cannot get much smaller. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers hardware, ...

A hardware feature that used to be standard on computers and consoles has quietly disappeared. Several practical shifts explain why it stopped mattering.

If the engineers at Agere Systems have their way, small hard drives will play an even bigger role in music players and other handheld devices. The semiconductor company is shopping around the idea ...

Hard disk drives are often written off as legacy tech, but a closer look at what is still on sale tells a different story. After compiling a detailed list of 167 of the best hard disk drives worth ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This disk drive for 8" floppy disks ...

Bye-bye SATA? Seagate’s latest creation melds a hard disk drive with the NVME protocol. The company debuted the concept at a computing summit in San Jose, California, this week, and says it could pave ...

Hard disk drives may seem outdated and useless, now that solid state drives keep plummeting in price. But even with how relatively cheap SSDs are currently, buying a hard disk drive instead of an SSD ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Covering Digital Storage Technology & Market. IEEE President in 2024 There has been a fair amount of coverage in the last couple ...