Anyone knows some hard disk models available on sale that have biggest capacity and only one platter? I guess all the 160 GB models available have one platter but I wonder if the 320GB drives also ...

Western Digital has introduced the industry's first hard drive that offers 30GB of capacity on a single platter, which translates into two words that consumers love to hear: bigger and cheaper. A hard ...

Toshiba Corp. has boosted the rotational speed of its latest high-capacity hard disk drive to 5,400 rpm, the company announced Wednesday, promising faster access to data for end users. Toshiba ...

When it comes to capacity, hard-drive manufacturers can hardly contain themselves. Several of the leading hard-drive manufacturers have been professing that they have been innovating technologies that ...

When it comes to capacity, hard-drive manufacturers can hardly contain themselves. Several of the leading hard-drive manufacturers have been professing that they have been innovating technologies that ...

Hard drives are cheaper per terabyte compared to SSDs, which makes them great for mass storage. Large platter drives are more reliable for long-term data storage. Desktops often support more ...

One of the first hard drive storage devices was invented by IBM in the 1950s, and you could get one, assuming you were ...

Samsung's 1.8-in. N-series targets mobile applications (see the figure). It features 20-, 30-, 40-, and 60-Gbyte per-disk capacities. Only 5 mm tall, drives are available with PATA and CEATA ...

eg - the 640Gb WD Scorpio blue (2.5") - does the dual platter improve read/write/access times (a la RAID) or is it purely an exercise in increasing capacity?<BR><BR ...

At some point in time, Seagate had the grand idea of slapping an NVMe interface on a hard disk drive (HDD), and then decided to actually make such a thing a reality. Then at the OCP Global Summit this ...