The magnetic hard disk's tenure as a critical part of the storage technology mosaic is entering its sixth decade, and it shows no sign of ending any time soon. However, certain limitations imposed by ...

Toshiba demonstrated a method for using magnetic fields from microwave radiation to reverse the magnetization direction selectively in a multi-layer magnetic recording media at the International ...

Solid-state drives won't approach magnetic hard-disk drives in pricing anytime soon, if ever. Comparison shopping makes SSDs look like a luxury purchase. Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer ...

Super science The vast numbers of hard disks in data-storage centres that underpin “cloud computing” rely entirely on the physics of magnets. (Courtesy: iStock/IR_Stone) In 2022 I stood for election ...

Why doubling a hard drive's IOPS still can't beat cheap NVMe ...

Company is going hybrid for laptop hard drives. Gone are the days of the pure magnetic hard disk drive with high rpm. Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, ...

Researchers in the Netherlands say they have come up with a way of using lasers to speed up magnetic hard drives by a factor of 100. A paper published by Daniel Stanciu of the Nijmegen Science ...

If you look for a desktop or laptop PC, you’ll see that with very few exceptions, the hard disk drive (HDD), which has served us for decades, is no longer offered as an internal storage medium.

Researchers in the Netherlands say they have come up with a way of using lasers to speed up magnetic hard drives -- and they expect to have a prototype by 2010. A paper published by Daniel Stanciu of ...